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Date: July 18, 2009
Topic: Wonder Girls International moves to WordPress!

Yes, I have finally decided to move to WordPress. I’ve been thinking about moving the blog here for a while, but never got around to moving cause I wasn’t so sure. =P But now I’ve finally decided and Wonder Girls International will now be over here, updating Wonder Girls media, etc. Please read the About section for a few changes that I made. They’re a little different than Blogger.

And also read the FAQ if you have any questions you’re curious about.
p.s. I’m still working on a few things on here, so please be patient.

Hye Lim’s first performance as part of Wonder Girls in China!

Wonder Girls new member Hye Lim (Lim)’s first performance with the group took place on 5th February.

After the leaving of member Sun Mi, Hye Lim who is the newly joined member had her first official performance as part of the group during an event in China on 5th February.

The girls are in China for a promotional event for their product endorsement, during the event they performed several of their hits like ‘Nobody’, ‘Tell Me’, ‘So Hot’ etc.

Hye Lim has been a trainee under JYP Entertainment for 3 years and is fluent in 4 languages – Korea, English, Chinese and Cantonese. Her nationality is Korean but she holds a PR in Hong Kong. She was supposed to debut as part of the Chinese Wonder Girls with other JYP trainees like Jia and Fei Fei.

All I can say is…this is happening way too fast! xP

Wonder Girls to cancel their US Tour

It was reported earlier that the Wonder Girls was postponing their US album back to March-April due to the departure of Sun Mi. Now JoongAng Daily is reporting that the Wonder Girls will be canceling their US Tour altogether.

The article reads:

The Korean pop group Wonder Girls have cancelled their headlining. Tour of the United States, which was supposed to start at the end of February.

It seems all of these decisions were made after one of their members, the 18-year-old Sun Mi, called it quits last month to return to school. The CEO of the company that manages the group, JYP Entertainment’s Park Jin-young, first cancelled the U.S. tour and postponed their U.S. debut album release for April.

“The upcoming tour wasn’t going as planned and postponing their U.S. album release was an inevitable situation,” said a spokesman from JYP Entertainment.

Park’s decisions for the temporary break are seen as a way to give the 18-year-old Hye Rim, Sun Mi’s replacement, time to ease in to performing with the group. According to Park, they plan to resume their original plans after she’s completely adjusted.

Aww….I was looking forward to this. And I’m sure it would’ve been awesome too. I wish I could just see them before Sunmi officially departs from the group. =( *sighs* It’s for the best.

Source: JoongAng Daily
Credit: allkpop

Mandarin versions of ‘Nobody’ & ‘So Hot’ released!

After their aborted attempt to enter the Chinese market in 2008 due to visa issues, the Wonder Girls will be trying again in 2010 with a full-fledged promotion by releasing a best hits collection album on February 12th.

This special album consisting of a CD + DVD will include a total of 16 tracks, with 3 being mandarin versions of Nobody, So Hot and Tell Me. The DVD will contain music videos of their trilogy hit songs. To usher in the Chinese New Year, red packets will be given with the first print of the album.

Ahead of their album release, Taiwanese radio channel, UFO Radio Station will be playing a preview of their mandarin tracks from February 1 – 6. ‘So Hot’ and ‘Nobody’ have already been revealed.

Cute selca photos of Wonder Girls new member HyeLim revealed!

Photos of new member HyeLim (LIM), who is set to replace Wonder Girls Sun Mi on the team, revealed online have been garnering much attention from netizens.

Currently on various portal sites, selca photos of HyeLim and photos taken together with her friends have been posted up and gathering much discussions from netizens. HyeLim and Sun Mi are bout 92-er. But of them have huge eyes, and their smiles are similarly cute.

HyeLim is Korean by nationality and holds a PR in Hong Kong. She is fluent in 4 languages – Korean, English, Chinese and Cantonese. The reason for her joining Wonder Girls is due to her language capabilities which will aid Wonder Girls in their overseas promotions.

She is also known for her great dancing and singing capabilities as part of Chinese version of Wonder Girls. With these conditions, HyeLim was also able to join Wonder Girls with the sudden news of Sun Mi leaving the group.

Amidst all the sadness about Sun Mi’s leaving, the cute features of HyeLim has also garnered much interests

Netizens’ comments on the photos are, “She has a pretty face”, “I’m curious since she is fluent in different languages and said to be good in dancing and singing” etc.

Source: TVDaily
Credit: kbites

Wonder Girls postpone release of their first US album

The Wonder Girls were planning on releasing their first US English album in February. Unfortunately, there is a bit of bad news for fans. As if Sunmi’s withdrawal wasn’t enough, the album has now been postponed for a March-April release. But somehow, I saw this coming.

JYP Entertainment said, “Wonder Girls were planning on releasing their album this month. But since Sunmi has decided to leave the group recently, the release of the album is most likely postponed to March or April.”

Since Sunmi is going back to Korea in March to focus on her education, Sunmi will not be a part of this new album at all. JYPE says that Sunmi is not working on the album right now and the parts that Sunmi had already recorded, will be re-recorded with new member Hae Lim. The songs that have not been recorded yet, will of course have Hae Lim and not Sunmi.

Credit: allkpop

Wonder Girl’s Sohee becomes a doll!

One interesting netizen did a clay doll out according to member SoHee’s concept for this photoshoot and has been gaining much attention for his creation. Pretty interesting and dang creative!

Credit: kbites

Wonder Girls are back in Korea but without Sunmi; Sunye came back early to see new Wonder Girls member Hae Lim

In preparation for their Chinese promotions which will begin in February, the Wonder Girls have returned to Korea – without member Sunmi (or Lim).

Sunye flew to Korea earlier this week on January 25, and Yeeun, Yoobin and Sohee returned two days later on the 27th. Sunmi is reportedly remaining in order to continue the WG schedule in America.

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The American-based Wonder Girls have secretly returned to South Korea. The short homecoming is facilitate China promotions during early February. But because of the related problem of SunMi’s departure, whether the fans can meet with Wonder Girls has become a focus of attention.

If Sunmi decides to comeback in the group JYP would be okay with it.

JYP Entertainment stated:

“We did not expect Sunmi to withdraw from the group and all of our commitments stated that the Wonder Girls are a 5 member group. Furthermore, the parties that we had commitments with all showed disapproval to a 4 member Wonder Girls. We had discussions with the 4 members, who all agreed to Hae Lim joining, which is why the decision was made.”

In addition, JYP Entertainment stated:

“Although there is an issue with the Wonder Girls becoming a 4 member group after Sunmi’s decision to leave, later on, if Sunmi wishes to return as a member of the Wonder Girls, there are no issues with the group gaining an additional member. If Sunmi wishes to return later on, we will respect her decision as well as the other members’ decisions and follow.”

This should’ve put the Wonderfuls at ease, as it is great news, however they responded with:

“We cannot agree to this statement that 4 members are an issue but 6 members aren’t.”

Credit: allkpop + JYPE

JYP Entertainment responds to the Wonderfuls

JYPE has decided to setup a storage room for better communication with the Wonderfuls.

“This is JYP Entertainment.

Hello, fans.

In an effort to accommodate the needs of the fans, JYP Entertainment has decided to set up a storage room in order to better the communication between the fans and our company.

During crucial matters such as our celebrity withdrawals, promotion suspensions, and member changes, we’re planning to reply to all questions submitted in written form to the best of our ability.

However, we ask for you to understand that we’re prohibited to reveal information regarding contracts with other companies or personal requests regarding our celebrities. Excluding these two points, we promise to answer questions without any exaggerations, watered-down answers, or distortions since these will be treated as the official opinions of our company.

If you take our official replies and treat them as false information or release false information that we never said, we will immediately suspend the conversations.

A couple of days ago, we received a representative question regarding Sunmi’s (Mimi) withdrawal from the Wonder Girls. Our company will soon be sending a reply.

Since we have now created an official storage room, we ask for the fans to please leave their written questions on the designated wall by the company building. Every 24 hours, we will take pictures of the wall and take the questions down into the storage room.

Our company has been using the terms of the fair contract since November of 2009 and all decisions made regarding promotional activities are by the celebrities in question. Our company must comply to their requests and we will continue to hold these terms in our contracts.

We will work harder to listen to all of the voices of the celebrities in our company and their fans.

Thank you.”

Credit: allkpop + hazyfiasco@2ONEDAY

Wonder Girls Nobody Rainstone Remix! (English version) – Now Available!

Aside from all the mess happening these past few weeks, here is an exclusive single of Wonder Girls “Nobody” Rainstone Remix. It is said to release on the 29th!

Download the single on Amazon or listen to the exclusive 30 sec. teaser on allkpop!