Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past two years or so, it’s hard not to have heard about a song titled “Nobody” by the Wonder Girls. We’re not surprised if you have memorized all the dance steps and lyrics (even the Korean version) to the insanely catchy number that has taken Asia by storm, for this is the phenomenon known as the “Nobody” dance craze.

Kids, office workers, clubbers, inmates and even Jordin Sparks have gotten in on the action, and the countless covers and spoofs all over the Internet only highlight the fact that nobody does it quite like the Wonder Girls.

One of South Korea’s biggest pop exports, the Wonder Girls have had a busy year, with English releases of their previous Korean hits making their rounds in the US, and a tour with the Jonas Brothers in mid-2009. “Nobody” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2009, making them the first Korean group to enter the chart. And now, here they are at MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2010, delighting fans with tracks both old and new that everyone can dance to.

We find out more about Sun Ye (Sun), Ye Eun (Yenny), So Hee (Sohee), Yu Bin (Yubin), and Hye Rim (Lim), as they talk to MTV Asia about their personal style, choice of superpower and So Hee’s trademark “Omona” expression.

Wonder Girls agency, JYP Entertainment, has confirmed that Sunmi will be leaving the K-pop female idol group in February to pursue her studies in South Korea after the group’s tour performance in the United States.

Park Jaebeom, ex-2PM

As a music blogger, I’m ready for change (although I really love my dollars). So if I must understand the allure of K/J-Pop, I must then, delve right into the belly of the beast. And since the lovely boys from 2AM performed at the MTV World Stage Live In Malaysia’s post party and were ever so charming, I raided one of the designers’ desk and absconded with 2PM’s “2:00 Time For Change” (how apt!) and 2AM’s “Time For Confession” and attempted the impossible – Fall in love with K-Pop.

And while I was looking through the elaborately designed CD sleeves and trying to tell the boys from 2AM and 2PM apart, someone shouted over the desks and disrupted the peace of the day: 2PM’s leader, Park Jae-beom, has quit the group!

What do the names ‘Yubin’, ‘Ye-Eun’, ‘Sun Ye’, ‘Sun Mi’ and ‘So Hee’ have in common?

Well, they’re Korean names, of course. But more than that, they’re currently one of the ‘It’ K-pop girl group called Wonder Girls.

From (L): Ye-Eun, Yubin, Sun Ye, So Hee, Sun Mi. Photo by: Charley Gallay/WireImage