It's a wonderful life for these girls

Monday, July 26th, 2010 13:23:00

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Hate them with a passion or love them to bits, it doesn't matter what you think of Korean pop sensation Wonder Girls. "I want nobody, nobody but you" and the dance steps that matches the lyrics are annoyingly stuck in your head and you know it.

The heat for Wonder Girls is still very much burning strong as nobody but this girl group could have spread their popularity from Asia to the Unit­ed States, marking them as the first Korean group to have made it into the Billboard Hot 100 with the super catchy single Nobody.

After slight changes in the line-up, the current members are Sun-Ye, Ye-Eun, Yu-Bin, So-hee, and group new­bie Hye-rim.

Previous member Hyuna had initially left Wonder Girls due to a health problem and has since joined a new Korean girl group named 4 Minutes while Sun Mi left the group to pursue her academic career although she is still considered as part of the group by fans. Wonder Girls management company JYP has since stated that she is welcome back anytime to join the girls as the sixth member.

The single Nobody proved so pop­ular, that American fans have posted many different remakes of the songs on the Internet, which caught the girls by surprise.

"I guess no matter where you come from, since the day the Internet was born, we can search and explore any genres of music and it really doesn't matter if you are a Korean or an American," said So Hee.

"We missed home a lot while in America. Growing up in Korea all my life, it proved a little difficult trying to adapt to the American culture. But we got used to it after a problem and has since joined a new Korean girl group named 4 Minutes while Sun Mi left the group to pursue her academic career although she is still considered as part of the group by fans. Wonder Girls management company JYPhas since stated that she is welcome back anytime to join the girls as the sixth member.

The single Nobody proved so pop­ular, that American fans have posted many different remakes of the songs on the Internet, which caught the girls by surprise.

"I guess no matter where you come from, since the day the Internet was born, we can search and explore any genres of music and it really doesn't matter if you are a Korean or an American," said So Hee.

"We missed home a lot while in America. Growing up in Korea all my life, it proved a little difficult trying to adapt to the American culture. But we got used to it after a on to that dream has since brought Wonder Girls to a point of success that none of them have even dreamed about.

"We love meeting new fans in differ­ent countries, but the opportunity for us to come to America came so fast, I still can't believe we were there in the first place," So Hee added.

After ending their run in the US, the girls returned to South Korea to pro­mote their Korean version of their lat­est single 2 Different Tears in May (the single has also been recorded in Chi­nese and English), and next up for the girls will of course be the highly antici­pated MTV World Stage 2010.

If you want to catch some of that Ko­rean fever as well, remember to catch the girls on MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2010 at Sunway Lagoon Re­sort on July 31. The outdoor concert will also feature live performances from Katy Perry, Tokio Hotel and Bunkface.

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