Rescene's whole identity has been built on smell — a group name stitched from scene and scent, with each release keyed to a different fragrance. The fourth EP takes that idea to the place perfumers actually care about: the pulse point.
What is Rescene releasing on November 3, and why 'Pulse'?
Rescene is releasing its fourth EP, "Pulse" (펄스), on Nov. 3, 2026 — a date the group's agency The Muze Entertainment confirmed on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026 . It is the five-member group's first physical album in roughly a year, since third EP "Lip Bomb" arrived Nov. 25, 2025, and its first release of any kind in four months, since the remake single "Pretty Girl" in July 2026, according to the Korea Times, citing the agency .
Quick Answer: Rescene drops its fourth EP "Pulse" on Nov. 3, 2026, per The Muze Entertainment's Sept. 22 announcement. It is the quintet's first physical album since "Lip Bomb" (Nov. 25, 2025), which moved 101,291 copies in its first week — a career high. Title track and tracklist are still unannounced.
The title is a continuation, not a reset. Rescene's name fuses the prefix re- with scene and scent, built around the idea of recalling a moment through smell, and every release so far has been mapped to a specific fragrance note — grass, berry and incense among them. The agency says "Pulse" will likewise "present a new musical fragrance," as reported by SBS . Korean coverage makes the perfumery link explicit: in fragrance practice the pulse point — wrist, neck, inner elbow — is where body heat lifts a scent off the skin and lets it bloom, which is the frame outlets have used for the title.
The commercial backdrop is "Lip Bomb," which peaked at No. 4 in Korea and cleared 100,000 copies in its first week — 101,291, per Circle Chart figures compiled on Wikipedia's discography table and confirmed as a career best by the Korea Herald . That is the number "Pulse" will be measured against.
What is not yet known is most of the album. As of Oct. 4, 2026, no title track, tracklist, concept photos or pre-order schedule for "Pulse" had been publicly announced — Korean entertainment press carries only the Sept. 22 confirmation . The specific scent attached to this release is also unannounced, which for a group that treats fragrance as the album's organizing idea is the detail fans are waiting on. Reporting also splits on the agency's romanization — Yonhap, in a wire report carried by the Korea Times, writes "The Muze Entertainment" , while SBS's English service and the Korea Herald use "The Muse Entertainment" . Both refer to the same company.
Who is in Rescene, and where does this comeback fit in their timeline
Rescene is a five-member group — Woni, Liv, Minami, May and Zena — that debuted on March 26, 2024 with the single album "Re:Scene" , which puts the group in its third year of activity as "Pulse" arrives. Korean outlets list the lineup in that order for the November comeback . The Korea Times describes the act as a quintet . Each member's hometown became public this year through a run of city tourism-ambassador appointments rather than a group interview. Geoje named Rescene its promotional ambassador on May 23 over Woni's roots there, and Suwon followed on June 24 with Liv, who was born and raised in the city, according to MoneyToday . Gyeongju appointed the group on June 29 around Zena, described as "a native of Gyeongju" by Mediafine , and Goyang — where May attended elementary and middle school — named her its ambassador on July 3, per Star News Korea . Minami, the group's Japanese member, is from Chiba .
The commercial arc is easier to read as a table. Figures below are first-week-style Circle Chart peak positions and sales totals as logged in Rescene's discography record .
| Release | Type | Date | Korea peak | Copies sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Re:Scene | Single album | Mar. 26, 2024 | No. 15 | 33,627 |
| Scenedrome | EP | Aug. 27, 2024 | No. 12 | 31,205 |
| Glow Up | EP | Feb. 5, 2025 | No. 10 | 15,612 |
| Dearest | Single album | Jul. 2, 2025 | No. 8 | 83,919 |
| Lip Bomb | EP | Nov. 25, 2025 | No. 4 | 101,291 |
| Pulse | EP | Nov. 3, 2026 | Not yet released | Not yet released |
Two things stand out in that progression. Chart peaks climbed steadily from No. 15 to No. 4 across five releases, and sales jumped sharply at the end: "Lip Bomb" cleared 100,000 copies in its first week, a career high for the group, per the Korea Herald . That EP carried double title tracks, "Heart Drop" and "Bloom," with "Heart Drop" pre-released on Nov. 6, 2025 .
"Pulse" therefore lands as the first full package of new original Rescene material since that ceiling moved. The Korea Times, citing the agency, notes it is the group's first release in four months after the July 2026 remake single "Pretty Girl," and its first physical album since "Lip Bomb" — roughly a one-year gap between physical releases . The in-between months were filled by a digital single, "Runaway," dated April 8, 2026, and the "Pretty Girl" remake, which took the group's first music show win on SBS MTV's *The Show* on July 14, 2026 .
Why 'Pulse' matters: Rescene's breakout ran on a 2024 song and a cover, not new music
"Pulse" is the first new original Rescene release since the group became chart-relevant — and that distinction is the whole story. The two songs that made Rescene a mainstream name in mid-2026 were neither new nor originally theirs: "Love Attack," a deep cut from the August 2024 EP "Scenedrome," and "Pretty Girl," a remake of Kara's 2008 single. According to the Korea Times, "Love Attack" gained traction on major domestic charts in July 2026, nearly two years after its release, and is now the quintet's signature song .
The numbers behind that delayed run are specific. "Love Attack" reached No. 1 on the Circle Digital Chart and charted at No. 167 on Billboard Global Excl. US, and it won Inkigayo on July 26, 2026 . Xports News reports the track held the No. 1 spot on Melon's TOP100 for an extended stretch, with back-catalog cuts "Deja Vu" and "Runaway" re-entering charts on the renewed interest . By trophy count, though, the cover outperformed the original: the Korea Herald logs four music show trophies for the "Pretty Girl" remake against two wins tied to "Love Attack" .
Xports News attributes a large share of the surge to something outside the music entirely — member Woni's personal YouTube channel, which the outlet says has passed 2.15 million subscribers on dialect-driven content, including a Zena trot medley clip that drew 7.84 million views in three days . Variety-style clips, a two-year-old album track and someone else's hit are three different engines, and none of them is a new Rescene single.
Xports News puts the test plainly: Rescene's breakout has run on a back-catalog track, a remake and viral variety content, so "Pulse" becomes the first real measure of whether original Rescene music can sustain the "mainstream girl group" framing the Korean press has begun using (source: Xports News, 2026-09).
That framing is worth separating from fact. Herald Business used the phrase "national girl group" in a headline, and SBS describes the group as a representative fifth-generation act — outlet characterizations, not measured positions. What is measurable arrives on Nov. 3.
What fans can expect next: pre-order window and promotion schedule
As of Oct. 4, 2026, the only confirmed detail about "Pulse" is its release date: Nov. 3, 2026 . No title track, tracklist, concept photos or pre-order window has been announced, and searches of Korean entertainment press turn up nothing beyond the Sept. 22 confirmation from The Muze Entertainment . Fans planning purchases should treat every schedule circulating online as unverified until the agency posts it.
What the agency has said is thematic rather than logistical: "Pulse" will "present a new musical fragrance," continuing the scent framing that has defined each Rescene release . That pattern has previously extended off-record too — the group has run a pop-up store using scents to express its music and sensibilities, so a fragrance-led offline component is consistent with how past comebacks were packaged .
For timing, the closest usable precedent is "Lip Bomb," the third EP released Nov. 25, 2025, whose pre-release track "Heart Drop" arrived Nov. 6, 2025 — roughly three weeks ahead of the album . Applied to a Nov. 3 release, standard K-pop cadence would place a tracklist and pre-order opening in early-to-mid October and teaser content in the two weeks before. That is an expectation drawn from precedent, not a stated plan.
Practically, the first concrete signal will be a concept photo drop on The Muze Entertainment's official channels and Rescene's own social accounts — the same route the Sept. 22 announcement travelled. The group's profile image used by Korean outlets was itself captured from Rescene's X account , which is a fair indication of where news lands first.
The takeaway for anyone tracking this one: mark Nov. 3, 2026, watch for a tracklist in the next two weeks, and measure "Pulse" against "Lip Bomb" — 101,291 first-week copies and a No. 4 peak in Korea . That is the number this comeback has to answer to.
Frequently asked questions
When does Rescene release 'Pulse'?
Rescene releases its fourth EP "Pulse" on Nov. 3, 2026 . The date was confirmed by the group's agency, The Muze Entertainment, in an announcement on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, reported by the Korea Times and Star News Korea . No release time or distribution detail beyond the date has been published. Note that English coverage renders the agency name both as "The Muze Entertainment" and "The Muse Entertainment"; both refer to the same company.
Is 'Pulse' Rescene's first new music in a while?
"Pulse" is Rescene's first physical album in roughly a year and its first release of any kind in four months. According to the Korea Times, citing the agency, the EP follows "Pretty Girl," a remake single released in July 2026, and is the quintet's first physical release since its third EP "Lip Bomb" arrived in November 2025 . One discrepancy to be aware of: the Korea Herald dates "Pretty Girl" to June 2026, while Korea Times, SBS and the Korean-language wires all report July .
What is Rescene's scent concept?
Rescene's concept is built on fragrance: the group name fuses the prefix "re-" with both "scene" and "scent," on the idea of recalling a scene through smell, as SBS reports . Each release so far has been keyed to a different scent — grass, berry and incense among them — and the agency says "Pulse" will likewise present a new musical fragrance . The title points to the pulse point, the spot on the skin where perfume blooms, which is how Korean outlets have framed it. The group has also run a pop-up store using scents to express its music .
Who are the members of Rescene?
Rescene is a five-member group: Woni, Liv, Minami, May and Zena . The Korea Times describes the act as a quintet and dates its debut to March 2024 ; Wikipedia's discography logs the debut single album "Re:Scene" as arriving March 26, 2024 . Their hometowns surfaced through 2026 city tourism-ambassador appointments rather than a single interview: Geoje (Woni), Suwon (Liv, born and raised there), Gyeongju (Zena, a native of the city) and Goyang (May, who attended elementary and middle school there) each named the group a promotional ambassador between May 23 and July 3, 2026, per MoneyToday, Mediafine and Star News Korea . Minami, the group's Japanese member, is from Chiba .
Has Rescene released the 'Pulse' tracklist or title track yet?
No. As of Oct. 4, 2026, only the release date and the EP title are confirmed; the title track, full tracklist, concept photos and pre-order schedule remain unannounced, with Korean entertainment press carrying nothing beyond the Sept. 22 confirmation . The specific scent tied to "Pulse" has not been disclosed either. Standard K-pop promotion cadence would place pre-orders and a tracklist reveal in early-to-mid October for a Nov. 3 release, but that is an expectation based on typical schedules, not anything The Muze Entertainment has stated.
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Last updated: 2026-10-04. Checked against agency announcements and Korean entertainment press reporting published through Oct. 4, 2026.
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