Sandara Park
Sandara Park, known as "Sandy" or "Krung Krung" by her fans, is a Korean singer/actress/host who became popular in the Philippines. She is currently in the group 2NE1 which debuted in the summer of 2009.
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Profile
- Full Name: Sandara Park
- YG stage name: Dara
- Birth Date: November 12, 1984
- Birth Place: Busan, South Korea
- Height: 5'4"
- Weight: 32 Kg
- Agency: ABS-CBN's Star Magic (2004-mid 2007), YG Entertainment (mid 2007-Present)
- Record Label: ABS-CBN's Star Record (2004-mid 2007), YG Entertainment (mid 2007-Present)
Early Life
Sandara Park migrated to the Philippines at the age of 8 after her father's business closed down due to financial difficulties. It was in 1995 that her whole family went to Philippines to start all over again. In the process, she learned to speak English and Tagalog. She also went to Center for Pop Music for music lessons.
After migrating, Park's family found it hard to make ends meet. In order to help, Sandara took courage to audition in ABS-CBN's reality talent search show, Star Circle Quest.
Star Circle Quest and Career Boom
Encouraged by then ABS-CBN Talent, Pauleen Luna, Sandara tried her luck and auditioned in the said show. As the show progressed, Sandara experienced a lot of harsh criticisms that won the heart of the audience. Despite her lack of talents, her charisma , novelty and large number of growing fans placed her as the contest's one of runners-up.
Although she didn't win the contest, Sandara went on and became the most popular of her batch in the contest. She became the favorite TV commercial endorser, ratings on her TV show raised up and her live events were packed with adoring fans.
In late 2004, she went to South Korea. It was then she was first acknowledged in Korean Pop culture. KBS made a TV documentary about her and she was invited in various TV specials in Korea
Popularity dies down
After Sandara came back from South Korea, she found that her popularity gradually started to die down as new batches from other reality shows of her mother network took center stage. She was mainly affected when another Asian reality show contestant turned actress, Kim Chiu, became the next popular ABS-CBN star. Chiu was soon favored more by the network's management.
By late 2006, Sandara tried a comeback as she signed a film contract with Regal Films. But after quiet months of no projects, Sandara had finally decided to move back to South Korea and quit Filipino show business for good.
YG Entertainment
Sandara Park left Philippines for good on August 1, 2007 and went back to her hometown in South Korea. On August 2, YG Entertainment reported that they already signed her on their company. Impressed on her talents and her multi-lingual ability she showed when she visited South Korea on 2004, YG Family expresses their confidence on making her the next BoA. Right now, she's filming a Korean drama that will be airing by the end of 2007 and is also under training. She is now in the group 2NE1 which debuted in 2009.
Shortly after the release of Big Bang and 2NE1's collaboration song "Lollipop", netizens found out about an old Dara photo shoot in UNO (Diether Ocampo’s men’s magazine), featuring her in a corset and leather, as well with a whip. Korean press described those photos as "disturbing" and "inappropiate", 'especially considering that Dara's image is an innocent and sweet one'.
Dara's hairstyle used in the Lollipop photos and MV became famous. The style first appeared in last month’s issue of Marie Claire with Han Chae Young as its model, though it became a trend to follow after the release of the Lollipop MV. Various girls posted photos of them wearing the hairstyle in their Cyworld pages.
In July 2009, YG has revealed that he thought Dara would not debut, because her abilities were almost just there. However he expressed his satisfaction on Dara being the most hard-working member, she is a friend who made the impossible possible.
Works
Film
- Volta (Cameo)
- Bcuz Of U
- Can This Be Love
- D' Lucky Ones
- Super Noypi
Television
- Star Circle Quest
- SCQ Reload: OK Ako (SCQ Reload: I'm OK)
- ASAP Fanatic
- Krystala
- Sandara's Romance
- Maalaala Mo Kaya (If you can remember)
- Sandara: Ang Pambansang Krung-Krung ng Pilipinas (TV Special) (Sandara�: The National KRUNG-KRUNG of the Philippines) KRUNG-KRUNG means Crazy/Funny in the Philippines
- Crazy For You
- O-Ha!
- Star Magic Presents (Bongga episode)
- Star Magic Presents: Abt Ur Luv
- Dalawang Tisoy (two foreigners)
Voice Acting
- VOLTES V as Jaime Robinson (Tagalized version)
Commercial Endorsements
- Maxipeel
- Charmee
- Rejoice
Music
Album
- Sandara Park (2004)
Promotional Singles
Featured in
- Gummy's "I'm Sorry" MV (with Big Bang's TOP) (2008)
- G-Dragon's album track "Hello" (2009)
