If you are flying in for an aespa show, this is the two minutes to watch before you pack. SMTOWN posted the official light device sync guide on August 5, and the description does something most concert instructions do not — it writes the whole sequence out in English as well as Korean, so nothing has to be guessed at from the footage.

Four steps, in order. STEP 1: Install the SMTOWN App. STEP 2: Register Your Light Device. STEP 3: Enter Your Seat Information. STEP 4: Ready for the Show. Under them sits one more line — 'Quick reminders before the show'.

The video runs two minutes and twenty-six seconds. In its first minutes it had drawn 470 views, with 88 likes and 13 comments at the time of writing — small numbers for a clip that is not meant to trend, and the wrong measure of a video whose whole job is to be found by someone holding a ticket.

The same description carries aespa's official accounts across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Weibo, a line reading MY Official above the group's Weverse link, and the tags #aespa, #에스파, #æspa and #SMTOWN. Which show it is written for is not stated, so this desk is not stating it.