Pretty GirlRESCENE's special single of 8 July 2026, a remake of KARA's 2008 song, released as "LOVE ATTACK" was climbing the charts. It reached fourth on the Melon TOP100 and brought the group its first music-show wins. Its scent is grapefruit.
‘Pretty Girl’ is a special single released on 8 July 2026 at 6 p.m. KST, a remake of KARA’s 2008 song. It was announced while ‘LOVE ATTACK’ was in the middle of its chart run, and the official upload is a special video rather than a full music video.
This single’s scent is grapefruit. Soompi reported that the group chose grapefruit to continue its scent concept, and the album introduction describes the arrangement as fresh as a burst of grapefruit.
In Idology’s note for the release week, Kwibi (퀴비) wrote of the choice of song that “picking KARA’s ‘Pretty Girl’ — which can be counted an early instance of the phrase ‘a miracle from a small agency’ — as the song to remake looks like a fairly deft choice”. A month later, in a piece about another act, the same writer observed that a K-pop group’s remake is usually made “in the manner of a faithful homage to a senior act’s original”, and named this single as the representative example.
On 13 July 2026 the song stood fourth on the Melon TOP100 and first on the Bugs realtime chart, with ‘LOVE ATTACK’ at number one on Melon the same day. RESCENE took their first music-show win with it on The Show on 14 July, and their first win on a terrestrial network on Show! Music Core on 25 July. Top Star News reported that the special video had passed 20 million views on YouTube as of 26 July.
In an August 2026 essay on K-pop generations, Idology wrote that the release of this remake single brought earlier songs — ‘LOVE ATTACK’, ‘Deja Vu’ and ‘Pinball’ among them — onto the charts alongside it.
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A RESCENE fan chant (응원법) is not something the fandom compiled: it arrives in a video the group's official YouTube channel posts for each song. There are nine, from 'UhUh' in March 2024 to 'Pretty Girl' in July 2026, and this guide reads them against the songs' release dates.
RESCENE's fan club seats at a music show recording are checked against six items set by one notice from the agency. This guide reads that notice — the accepted ID documents, the light stick, the two opened album versions, the printed Melon receipt, the membership card and the streaming report screen.
RESCENE won the Global Connect award and the SPOTV Ambassador award at the 2026 SPOTV K-POP AWARDS, held at Ilsan KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, on 6 September 2026. Sports Khan wrote that the two trophies bring the group's award-show total to four.
RESCENE performed 'Pretty Girl' at the 53rd Korea Broadcasting Awards at MBC Open Hall on 3 September 2026, and Woni and Minami presented the digital-content programme award, their first time presenting since debut. The stage began when the comedian Lee Seon-min called Woni out from the audience.
MBC named RESCENE its broadcast ambassador for the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on 23 July 2026. The Games run 16 days from 19 September to 4 October; MBC's coverage opens on 10 September with men's basketball, South Korea against Saudi Arabia, and Woni and Minami's 'Star Tutor RESCENE' is due in the main broadcasts.
MLB has named RESCENE's Liv, Minami, May and Zena its new brand models, Ilgan Sports reported on 3 September 2026. The brand announced it on 1 September with a 26FW campaign teaser and released the photoshoot on 3 September. The campaign film 'SLEEK, THE RESCENE WAY.' went up the same day.
RESCENE's Woni and Minami appeared on episode 150 of the YouTube web variety show 'Salon Drip', published on 28 July 2026. It is the programme Woni had named in an earlier interview as the one she wanted to do, and the episode turned to first paycheques and to the streaming behind RESCENE's reverse run.
Jung Kook posted a link to RESCENE's Minami's cover of 'Still With You' on his Instagram story on 3 July 2026 with the word "yaho", Sports Kyunghyang and Top Star News reported. The cover went up on it's Live on 1 July, and on 11 July Minami recounted that morning on 'Omniscient Interfering View'.
RESCENE appear at the 2026 The Fact Music Awards for the first time since their debut, at Busan Asiad Main Stadium on 19 September 2026. The organising committee named them in the second line-up on 21 July and confirmed 17 acts on 30 July. The red carpet is at 4 p.m. and the ceremony at 6 p.m.
RESCENE have set one main scent on seven records, from the floral of the March 2024 debut single Re:Scene to the grapefruit of 'Pretty Girl' in July 2026, with ambergris, soap, grass, berry and incense between. The concept began with CEO Lee Ju-heon's keyword 'scent', producer Kim Hye-su told IZM.
The Korea Institute of Corporate Reputation ranked RESCENE first among rookie idol groups and Woni first among rookie idol individuals in September 2026, a second consecutive month at the top. RESCENE's index of 7,457,923 is 10.03% above August's; Woni's 2,857,659 is 13.93% above hers.
The Korea Institute of Corporate Reputation ranked RESCENE first in three brand reputation categories in August 2026 — singer, girl group and rookie idol group — and member Woni first among rookie idol individuals. The index is not a streaming chart: it sorts a month of online brand activity into four figures.
RESCENE won the K World Dream Best Fandom Award and the K World Dream Best Visual Content Award at the 2026 K-World Dream Awards, held at KINTEX in Goyang on 27 August 2026. They performed 'Deja Vu' at the ceremony.
iMBC Entertainment reported that episode 410 of MBC's Omniscient Interfering View, broadcast at 11:10 p.m. on 8 August 2026, was the programme's first single-guest special: RESCENE filled it as a full five-member line-up, after Star News reported 100 advertising enquiries since their 11 July 2026 appearance.
Goyang appointed RESCENE at City Hall on 2 July 2026, and the video it posted the next day has passed 1.1 million views on a municipal channel. Here is what the group agreed to promote, the city mascot it put on its head, and what May said about home.
Minami arrived in Korea in 2021 at 14, told her parents she would go home if she had not debuted by 18, was eliminated from an MBC audition programme, went back to Japan, returned and debuted with RESCENE at 19. She told News1 the whole of it in April 2026.
RESCENE were named models for CU, Domino's Pizza, Narangd Cider, Elite school uniforms, APE and Hollys through 2026. Hollys says it is its first brand model since 1998. Woni, Minami and Zena added solo deals, and RESCENE returned as Character Licensing Fair ambassadors.
Twelve dated entries, from a song released before the group debuted to a coffee chain's first brand model — in the order they happened, with a source each.
RESCENE's 8 July 2026 remake of KARA's 2008 'Pretty Girl' kept the melody, added distortion, synths and a grapefruit theme — and six days later brought the group their first music show win, followed by their first terrestrial win on 25 July.
On 8 August 2026, as the first solo guests '전지적 참견 시점' had ever booked, May said she once thought about leaving RESCENE before it existed — and described the day Woni came and spoke to her parents.
RESCENE debuted in March 2024 and broke out in 2026 with a song from 2024. The reference version: the five members and where they are from, the 'Scene' + 'Scent' name, every release the agency lists, the fandom name REMINE and how the breakout year actually ran.
