Wonder Girls cancel tour after Sun Mi announces departure

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

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.


Wonder Girls new member Hye Rim

After they finished a promotional tour in China, Hye Rim went to the U.S. on Feb. 2 with the rest of the Wonder Girls to begin working on their new album.

Sun Mi is currently getting ready to leave the U.S., and will head back to Korea after her final performance with the group on the 20th in Long Island, New York’s Nassau Coliseum for the Pop-Con Concert.

Source: JoongAng Daily

Comments

[polyurethane.livejournal.com]

April? :(

I bought the album in September.

Understandable that they have to get Hae Lim/Hye Rim to adjust to performing with the other girls but still... :(

[thrift.livejournal.com]

ikr? 8( WHAT I SAID A FEW DAYS AGO ABOUT THE WG LAPTOP CASEEEEE.

[prince-of-lies.livejournal.com]

lollz

[silent-swift.livejournal.com]

IA.
I bought mine in August! I wasn't expecting on waiting over 6 months for it. :(

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

I guess postponing the tour makes sense in this situtation.

[aunts.livejournal.com]

MTE.

And omg I'm still trying to adjust to Sohee not being magnae anymore, lol.

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute...Hae Lim's younger?! Crap I wasn't expecting that.

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

Ngl, that was my first thought too. After finding out that Lim would be the newest youngest member I felt bad for Sohee since her title will be stripped now. O_O There was an outrage about this at the WG forums, apparently no one can take away Sohee's title of the nation's donsaeng -I had no idea she was. XD

Girl doesn't have much left now. *dodges bricks*

[aunts.livejournal.com]

Well she was the mascot of the group during the periods where they were active; imo I don't think it necesssarily has to do with her not being magnae anymore, but then again IDK if that was also a factor to her popularity surge back in Korea, other than looking cute, lol.

[thrift.livejournal.com]

Girl doesn't have much left now. *dodges bricks*

lmao irl

[fauxflair.livejournal.com]

understandable, i guess... and the last sentence just made my heart break idk ;__;

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

I saw this coming...but I want my WG album! I pre-ordered back in September! T__T

[samiee-supastar.livejournal.com]

Is this album ever gonna come out :(

[legens-legentis.livejournal.com]

:( Just release the album already.

[valyrian.livejournal.com]

It's going to be sad not hearing her voice on the album :(

[awesomeful.livejournal.com]

Oh gah. D: It's completely understandable and not that unexpected, but it still sort of sucks.

[areeyezee.livejournal.com]

this is sad and all because i love sunmi.. but i sure spent 20 dollars forever ago and would like to receive what i spent it on |:

[prince-of-lies.livejournal.com]

"Begin" working on the new album? They made it sound like it was pretty much done. I hope Sun Mi's still gonna be on it :/

[djlancerock.livejournal.com]

Um lol at this rate I'll have moved out of my place by the time they ship it. And that won't be cool.

[newscasterbambi.livejournal.com]

Need to know if sunmi's on it else i'll cancel my preorder.
Not that I don't like the new one but to me they are no longer the wondergirls I want to own in CD~

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

Well I have some bad news for you...D:

From akpop:
"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."

I would link to the article but I am new to this and don't know how to. Sorry. ]':

[newscasterbambi.livejournal.com]

Wow Thanks~

[sociologique.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one that thinks re-recording her parts is messed up? I understand wanting to get Hae Lim involved and whatever, but that just kinda hurts me inside, ngl :\

[kittycurious.livejournal.com]

Everything aside; postponed their U.S. debut album

I'm happy to hear they're actually planning on releasing an album. I was afraid they'd only focus on singles- And I dislike it when their fans (aka. Some of my friends) are like "WonderGirls are taking over, YEAH!" when they only placed tops in the singles category, and singles don't sell well in the US.
So the fact they're coming out with an album is good.

[pickychu.livejournal.com]

so glad i didn't preorder thier album.

[steeele.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I don't even give a shit about their new album anymore. Boy am I glad I didn't pre-order.. And Haelim looks like Seungyeon in that photo.

[kayleen-san.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping this delay doesn't effect the record sales from those who learned about them via the Jonas Brothers tour. Out of sight, out of mind...

[krispy-bacon.livejournal.com]

omg I was afraid that would happen. :[ And as much as it's good that they plan on doing this I'm sad it's not coming out this month. ugh

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand why they are having a US tour in the first place. Are they going to do mall tours or something? If so that will be very traumatizing for them. They went from selling out arenas to mall tours D:

[iluvkidnappers.livejournal.com]

20th in Long Island, New York’s Nassau Coliseum for the Pop-Con Concert.

OMFG I WONT BE HOME THERE LSDFJ:KDFJLADJF RAGES