On February 25th, the renowned Korean artist IU exposed her close friendship with RIIZE‘s Anton once again by publicly praising him through social networks after the idol shared a challenge video of her new song.
The solo singer shared the new video on her Instagram account, where Anton from the boygroup, which debuted in September 2023, dances to her song ”I Stan U‘ from her most recent album titled ‘The Winning‘ and congratulates her for her long-awaited comeback.
anton posted a video congratulating iu on her cb and iu reposted his challenge on ig, praising him with
“he’s totally a pro…
RIIZE’s ANTON! 💙”she even made sure to promote anton by writing his name and group in the corner 🥹 im in tears iu practically watched anton grow up pic.twitter.com/M4XRyGaYqR
— wiz (@jhyngae) February 25, 2024
IU shared it on her Stories and commented, “He’s totally a pro… RIIZE’s ANTON!” drawing the attention of many fans of the genre due to this closeness between the idols, which is because they are seemingly connected by producer and singer Yoon Sang.
The two artists have known each other as siblings since they were young, as this producer is Anton’s father and also has a close relationship with IU, who in the past has referred to him as ‘father’, growing as an older sister for the RIIZE member.