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The Wonder Girls is one of South Korea’s top female pop groups, and recently gaining popularity in the US following their opening acts at Jonas Brothers’ tour. The girls are scheduled to release their full English album later this year.

The Wonder Girls officially debuted in early 2007 with mini-album The Wonders Begin, but they were making headlines for unfortunate incidents, i.e. car accidents and change of members because of health reason.

Their luck changed in September 2007 with the release of full album The Wonder Years. The song Tell Me was one of the hottest songs of the year; its cheeky choreography has became a national dance and gaining international notice.

The girls’ popularity is soaring ever since. They released the So Hot single in June 2008, which did pretty well; and Nobody a few months later, which was again one of the songs of the year with an extremely popular choreography.

The Wonder Girls began their concert tour in early 2009, which began in Bangkok before moving to a few American cities and ended in their homeland by March.

An announcement was made shortly after the end of their tour that the girls were ready to take on the American market in full force with the English version of Nobody. And their company brought in another good news in June that the girls would be joining the Jonas Brothers’ tour as opening act for their concerts.

The tour ended in late August, and it obviously helps the girls to gain popularity in the states, as their English single of Nobody has moved into the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, making them the first ever Korean artists to achieve the feat.

The group underwent their second member reshuffle with Sun Mi leaving to pursue her study in February 2010. Hong Kong born Hye-rim came in as replacement.

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