May

Who is May?

May (메이) is a member of the girl group RESCENE, which debuted under THE MUZE Entertainment on 26 March 2024 with the single album Re:Scene. In a Hellokpop interview in June 2024, after the group’s first promotions, she introduced herself as “the sunshine of RESCENE”, the member responsible for bringing bright vibes and positive energy to the team. Before she dreamed of being an idol, she said, she wanted to be a designer, and she liked making and mending doll clothes on a sewing machine.

She talked about her trainee years in a July 2025 interview with NME. There were days of finishing practice at 1 or 2 a.m. and going to school a few hours later, and “that early morning air reminds me of everything we went through together before we were RESCENE.” The story she told on MBC’s Omniscient Interfering View, broadcast on 8 August 2026, about thinking of leaving the team as a trainee is covered in this story.

In front of fans in Japan

In a December 2024 interview with the Japanese outlet Nom de plume, May said the stage she remembers most is the first song she sang for fans in Japan, a cover of Kenshi Yonezu’s ‘Lemon’. She learns Japanese, she said, by asking how to say what she wants to tell people that day and memorising each phrase as she is taught it.

Goyang, the city she grew up in

She went to elementary and middle school in Goyang (Money Today, 3 July 2026). When the city appointed RESCENE as its ambassadors on 2 July 2026, the group said it was meaningful to represent a member’s hometown, and in an interview with Joongboo Ilbo on 20 July May called Goyang “the precious hometown that made me who I am today”. In the same interview she recalled going to the water park every summer and the snow park every winter. How the appointment came about is in the Goyang story.

For her birthday on 19 August the city ran a celebration campaign: a video with pupils from the schools she attended and the mayor, and a show on the Ilsan Lake Park musical fountain (story). May told SBS, “I’ll work hard so that I can become someone you can be proud of.”

On channels and on air

On 12 June 2026 she made her first appearance on Woni’s YouTube channel, with Liv (story). In July she ran 6.25 km on Sean’s YouTube channel and said afterwards, “It was really good to run together for as many kilometres as that meaningful number” (MyDaily, 7 July 2026). What she said about the group’s first payout on MBC’s 최우수산 (Choeusan), broadcast on 12 July, is set out in this story.