2026/08/22
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Step into a RESCENE show and you hear it within seconds — voices filling the gaps between notes, names called in unison, short phrases landing exactly on the beat.
That is the 응원법 (eungwonbeop, fanchant), and it is one of the more distinctly Korean things about a K-pop live show. It is also learnable in about an hour.
What a Fanchant Actually Is
At a Western pop concert the crowd sings the lyrics. A fanchant does something different, and the difference is the point.
The chant never competes with the vocal. It fills what the vocal leaves empty — the instrumental intro, the beat between lines, the last eight counts of an outro.
Call and response, except choreographed months in advance and distributed on video so that everyone in the room has already rehearsed.
응원법 translates literally as "the method of cheering," which is drier than it deserves. What it produces is a room where the audience is scored into the arrangement rather than reacting to it.
Which Chants to Learn First — August 2026
RESCENE has fanchant guides for most of the promoted catalogue, which is more than anyone needs before a first show. Learn two.
As of now, those two are "LOVE ATTACK" and "Pretty Girl."
That is a recent change and worth explaining, because older guides will tell you something else.
"LOVE ATTACK" was the title track of SCENEDROME, released 27 August 2024, and it went nowhere for nearly two years. Then in July 2026 it completed a 역주행 (yeokjuhaeng, reverse run) to number one on Melon's TOP100, and RESCENE won Inkigayo with it later that month.
"Pretty Girl," a remake of KARA's 2008 single, took the group's first music show trophy earlier in the same month.
Those are the two songs a 2026 setlist is built around, and the two the room will be loudest for. Anything else is optional.
| Release | Songs with fanchant guides | Priority now |
|---|---|---|
| Re:Scene (single album) | UhUh · YoYo | Low |
| SCENEDROME (1st mini) | LOVE ATTACK · Pinball | Learn first |
| Glow Up (2nd mini) | Glow Up | Medium |
| lip bomb (3rd mini) | Heart Drop · Bloom | Medium |
| Singles | Deja Vu · Busy Boy · Runaway | Low |
| Special single | Pretty Girl | Learn second |
How to find them. Search the official YouTube channel for the song title plus "응원법" or "Fanchant Guide." The guide videos caption the chant in Korean with romanisation underneath, so you can follow phonetically with no Korean at all.
The highlighted sections are the parts you shout. Everything else you listen to.
Two Songs Is Genuinely Enough
New fans over-prepare and then freeze, which is the opposite of useful.
You do not need every word. You need to know when the chant starts and when it stops. Once the timing is in your body, the crowd carries the content — you will be surrounded by several hundred people who know it cold, and joining half a beat late is invisible.
Most chants are short repeated words, member names in sequence, or English phrases already. The language barrier here is much lower than it looks from outside.
Watch each guide video two or three times. Then watch one live performance of the same song and notice where the chant sits against the beat. That is the whole preparation, and it takes an hour.
What a Chant Is Made Of
Fanchants look improvised and are not. Almost all of them are assembled from the same three components, and recognising the parts makes any new one much faster to learn.
The name call. Most chants open with the members' names shouted in a fixed order over the intro. With five members this is short and it is the single highest-value thing to memorise, because it recurs and because it is the part the members themselves listen for.
The order is not alphabetical and not random — it is set, and the guide video gives it. Learn the sequence rather than the individual names.
The gap filler. Short repeated words or phrases dropped into the instrumental spaces between vocal lines. This is where timing matters most, because the window is often under a second and there is no cue except the beat.
The group call. A closing shout of the group name, usually at the end of the intro block or the final chorus. Loud, unmissable, and the easiest part to get right.
There is also 떼창 (ttechang) — the crowd simply singing along with the vocal line — which is a different thing from a fanchant and generally unstructured. Nobody publishes a guide for that. It happens where it happens.
The Light Stick Question
Before you memorise anything, decide what is going in your hand.
RESCENE has an official light stick, sold through the usual K-pop merchandise channels including WITHMUU and authorised international retailers. Specifications and stock change, so check the current listing rather than trusting a guide — including this one — on dimensions or battery type.
Two things that do not change. Most Korean light sticks run on AAA batteries that are not included, so buy them separately and load them the night before rather than the morning of. And bring spares — a dead light stick in the encore is a specific kind of misery.
You do not need one to get in. But standing inside a few thousand synchronised lights is a different experience from watching it happen around you.
One etiquette rule. Do not bring another group's light stick. In Korean fan culture it is not a generic glow prop — it declares which fandom you belong to, and turning up with the wrong one reads as a statement rather than an oversight. No light stick at all is completely fine. Clap.
Music Show or Fan Concert — the Room Changes the Chant
The same song works differently depending on where you hear it.
Music show tapings — programmes like M Countdown and Music Bank — record in studios with audiences in the low hundreds. Light sticks are sometimes restricted, and the chanting goes straight onto the broadcast audio. Precision matters more, and a mistimed shout is audible on television afterwards.
If a taping is your first RESCENE experience, spend the opening minute listening rather than chanting. The rhythm resolves quickly.
Fan concerts are a different format again — and smaller than international fans usually expect.
RESCENE's first, Project 326, was held on 9 August 2025 at the auditorium of Sungshin Women's University's Woonjung Green Campus. The name references the 26 March debut date.
A university auditorium is not an arena. That is the norm for a group at this stage, and it is an advantage — the members can see individual faces, and improvised call-and-response happens far more freely than in a televised taping.
One rule holds in both rooms: when a member turns the microphone toward the crowd, that is the cue. It is unmistakable when it happens.
Getting Into the Room
Knowing the chants is the easy half. Getting a ticket as an international fan is the other one.
Korean shows sell through domestic ticketing platforms, and for a group at this scale the general sale can be decided in the first minutes. Fan club members get a presale window, which is the main practical argument for joining the official membership before a tour is announced rather than after.
Register an account on the ticketing platform in advance, not on sale day. Payment and identity verification steps have caught out a lot of overseas buyers at exactly the wrong moment.
Arrive far earlier than the ticket says. Merchandise for Project 326 sold on site from 10 a.m. for a 2 p.m. show — a four-hour head start, and that is normal rather than unusual. If you want anything from the merch table, treat the stated show time as irrelevant to your planning.
The queue itself is part of the day. It is also where you will hear other people running the chants, which is better practice than any video.
Answering to the Fandom Name
RESCENE's fandom is REMINE (리마인), and it functions as a call-and-response prompt in itself.
The official explanation gives the name two readings at once. It is a reshaping of REMIND — music that brings a scene back the way a scent does. And it is RESCENE + MINE — the group as a scene that belongs to you. Both were stated in the same announcement; neither is the correct one.
Practically, when a member calls "REMINE!" between songs, that is not a greeting. It expects an answer, and the crowd gives one.
Worth also knowing that a fair share of this fandom arrived through the group's late-night YouTube livestreams rather than through releases. That shapes the room. The chanting has less stadium-ritual formality to it and more of the feel of an inside language among people who have been paying attention for a while.
Watching a few of those streams before a show is not just preparation for the chants. It teaches you what kind of response the members are actually listening for.
How Far the Chant Has Travelled
One measure of a fanchant escaping its fandom: it starts showing up where nobody is a fan.
From the 2025 season, Doosan Bears outfielder Kim Dae-han has used "LOVE ATTACK" as his walk-up music. Which means a Korean baseball crowd — not a K-pop audience, an entirely different set of people — has been hearing that intro all season.
Walk-up songs are chosen by players and heard by tens of thousands of people who did not come for the music. It is a small thing that tells you something the chart position does not: the hook works on strangers.
Some of the song's 2026 reverse run started in places like that.
Quick Reference
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Fanchant guides | Official YouTube — search song title + "응원법" or "Fanchant Guide" |
| Learn first (Aug 2026) | "LOVE ATTACK," then "Pretty Girl" |
| Light stick | Official version via WITHMUU and authorised retailers; verify current specs |
| Batteries | Usually AAA, not included — load the night before, bring spares |
| Etiquette | Never bring another group's light stick; empty hands are fine |
| Fandom name | REMINE (리마인) — expects a response when called |
| First fan concert | Project 326, 9 August 2025, Sungshin Women's University |
| Debut | 26 March 2024 — the "326" in Project 326 |
| Members | Woni, Liv, Minami, May, Zena |
| Agency | THE MUZE Entertainment |
Why It Is Worth the Hour
People leaving their first K-pop concert say the same sentence with reliable frequency: they had not realised how interactive it was.
That is what the fanchant is for. It moves you from watching a performance to being inside one.
The nearest Western equivalent is a singer tilting the mic toward the crowd during a chorus — except here it has been rehearsed, published in advance, and it arrives exactly where everyone expects it, which is precisely what makes it land.
The half-second when several hundred people put the same word on the same beat, and the members onstage visibly hear it, is the entire argument for learning the chant before you go.
Until you have helped make that sound, the video only ever shows you half of it.
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