Aespa’s Karina And ITZY’s Ryujin Showcase Their Iconic Friendship As Ryujin Reads Out Karina’s Texts
ITZY‘s Ryujin and aespa‘s Karina recently dropped some much-needed crumbs of their iconic friendship, and fans are loving it.
Despite their very busy schedules, the members of ITZY and aespa managed to become close in the last couple of years.
As time went on, Ryujin revealed that she was close with three members of aespa in particular. But it soon became clear that she had a favorite, and it was Karina.
ITZY Ryujin mentioned Karina in a fansign
OP: You did a great job with aespa on tiktok today.
🐱: Thank you
OP: Also…if you can only choose one person between Karina and Winter, who would you choose?
🐱: *laugh*
Op: Only one
🐱: For me, Jimin unnie
OP: Ouh i got it pic.twitter.com/RorD0xqQBh— karina’s wife (@ujiminphoria) August 8, 2022
In fact, at one point the two of them had fans joking about “dating rumors,” especially when Ryujin referred to Karina as jagi, or darling, in a live stream.
In Ryujin’s most recent live stream, she and Karina proved that their friendship is still going strong. Ryujin was live with her fans when she began to receive notifications from Karina. Fans were thrilled to see her reaction to Karina’s messages…
Ryujin’s genuine smiles when she saw the notification from Karina. They’re so cute😭 pic.twitter.com/n6hK8DhFQv
— karina’s wife (@ujiminphoria) January 9, 2023
…and perhaps even more so when she read them out loud. Karina wrote that she had attempted to go to bed early but, unable to fall asleep, she ended up watching Ryujin’s live stream instead.
🐱I received a kkt just now, it's Jimin (Karina)
🐱aespa's Karina said she is watching my live…she tried hard to sleep at 10pm but ended up she can't fall asleep and now watching my live
🐱Jimin ryujin Midzy let's go to sleep now
🐱"Let's have duo live next time"? What's that? pic.twitter.com/9lKykYh3qo— 베어²¹² (@COZYxBEAR) January 9, 2023
Eventually, Ryujin ended her live stream and closed it off with yet another cute message to Karina.
Ryujin said "goodbye babe" to Karina before ending the live <33#카리나 #KARINA #류진 #RYUJIN pic.twitter.com/F1i14JFVKq
— ryujin & karina (@KRNSRJ) January 10, 2023
It’s been a long time since fans got to see interactions between these two besties, save for the knowing look they shared at the 2022 MBC Gayo Daejejeon.
ryujin’s huge smile after spotting karina dancing in the back 🫠 pic.twitter.com/3t45S2HYqb
— jay 🍓 (@penguinstrawb) January 2, 2023
This latest confirmation of their closeness, therefore, has definitely been more than welcome. Now, fans are excited about the possibilities!
KARINA TEXTED RYUJIN EARLIER DURING HER IG LIVE AND SAID THAT THEY SHOULD DO A LIVE TOGETHER OH MY GOD
— IS SEEING ITZY 🐈⬛ (@midcys) January 9, 2023
Hopefully, we’ll see plenty more of them together in the future.
