<div><p>South Korea's top female pop group the Wonder Girls will soon have a new line-up, their agent announced Saturday, after taking the US pop charts by storm.</p><p>Sunmi, 18, will leave the five-member group when they wrap up their year-long tour of the United States in February, JYP Entertainment said.</p><p>According to the Billboard website (www.billboard.biz), "Nobody" topped the year-end Hot Singles Sales chart in 2009, beating stars such as Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga and Beyonce.</p><p>"Nobody" also ranked 76th in the Billboard Hot 100 in late October, a first for any Asian group, JYP Entertainment said.</p><p>Sunmi, who dropped out of school to join the Wonder Girls, will return to her education in March.</p><p>"It was such a valuable and happy experience for me to take part in the performance tour to 50 cities in the United States for the past year. But I came to wonder whether I should live like this," Sunmi said in a statement.</p><p>Sunmi will be replaced by Hye Lim, 18, who has been groomed by the group's agent for the past three years with a view to appealing to Chinese fans. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin,</p><p>Debuting in early 2007, the group scored three consecutive number one hit singles with "Tell Me," "So Hot" and "Nobody."</p><p>The Wonder Girls, also including Sohee, Sunye, Ye-eun and Yubin, plan to launch their first English album in February.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67582274&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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