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This talk serves as an introduction to the RENO (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation) and RENE (Reactor Experiment for Neutrino and Exotics) experiments, outlining their scientific objectives and recent progress. RENO has played a key role in precisely measuring the reactor mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ and continues to contribute to our understanding of neutrino oscillations through long-term data collection and analysis. The proposed RENE experiment builds upon joint studies conducted by the RENO and NEOS collaborations, which have indicated the possibility of sterile neutrino oscillations through observed spectral deviations in reactor antineutrino measurements. RENE aims to directly test this hypothesis with a short-baseline detector optimized for high-resolution spectral measurements. In this presentation, I will summarize the background and motivation for both experiments and provide the necessary context for the detailed talks that will follow, delivered by the members of the RENO and RENE collaborations.
