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Sandara Park (Korean: 박산다라; born November 12, 1984), better known as Dara (Korean: 다라), is a South Korean idol singer, actress, and model. She is best known as being a member and the director of communications of the South Korean girl group 2NE1. She first gained major popularity on ABS-CBN's Star Circle Quest during her stay in the Philippines. Her younger brother, Park Sang-Hyun, better known as Cheondung, is a former member of boy band MBLAQ.
Aside from her native Korean, Sandara is also fluent in Tagalog and English languages due to her stay in the Philippines. She also speaks Chinese and Japanese, both on conversational level.
She released her first digital single "Kiss" in South Korea in 2009 and it was included as the 9th track in 2NE1's first studio album To Anyone in 2010.
Dara was born in Busan, South Korea, when she was 10 years old, her family moved to the Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines to start a trading business.
In 2004, during one of her school activities, she met Pauleen Luna, a former talent of ABS-CBN Corporation Channel 2's Talent Center. Luna encouraged Park to audition for Star Circle Quest, a reality-based talent search television program. Over the course of the season, she escaped elimination several times, and reached the final ten contestants. Her Korean ethnicity resulted in some trouble with the daily exercises set by the panel of Filipino judges. During the last elimination round (in which only five people advanced), Park received approximately half a million text votes. She eventually finished in second place behind Hero Angeles.
Park joined ABS-CBN's entertainment stable called Star Magic in the wake of her success in the show, with her projects ranging from commercial endorsements to television appearances. She starred in her first movie Bcuz Of U (2004), a three-story movie. She acted alongside Hero Angeles, Kristine Hermosa and Heart Evangelista. Park won "Best New Actress", her first acting award, in the 21st Philippine Movie Press Club Star Awards. Park and Angeles launched their first solo movie, Can This Be Love (2005) which reportedly grossed almost 100 million pesos. Park was also nominated for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy)" at the 2006 Golden Screen Awards. Her third movie in the country was D' Lucky Ones (2006) wherein she was paired with co-SCQ alumnus, Joseph Bitangcol due to Angeles' decision to retire from show business. In the same year, her fourth and last movie Super Noypi was shown in Christmas 2006 and was an official entry into the 32nd Metro Manila Film Festival. The success of Park in the Philippines lead her to star in a drama series. One was Krystala, a fantasy series with Judy Ann Santos. She also acted in various series Crazy For You (2006) and Abt Ur Luv (2006) and television specials My Name is Sandara Park (2004) and SCQ Reload: OK Ako! (2004).
Park also embarked on a musical career that led to the release of her self-titled six-track album that contained the novelty dance hit "In or Out", a song that parodied her experiences on Star Circle Quest.
In December 2004, YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun Suk offered Park workshop classes in South Korea after seeing the KBS Documentary My Name Is Sandara Park. In March 2005, Park went ahead with the workshops, putting her career in the Philippines on hold. After six months, she resumed work in the Philippines, starring in several movies. She left the Philippines show business industry permanently and returned to South Korea with her family on August 1, 2007. YG Entertainment announced the following day that Park had signed a contract with them.
2NE1
The group's name was initially announced as "21"; however, due to the discovery of a singer with the same name, the group was renamed "2NE1", which "NE" is the abbreviation of "New Evolution". Sandara was placed in 2NE1, alongside Bom, Minzy and CL.
The group collaborated with label-mate senior Big Bang for the song "Lollipop". 2NE1 debuted in SBS's The Music Trend on May 17, 2009 where they performed their digital single "Fire" produced by Teddy Park of 1TYM. With the release of their self-titled mini-album, the group started the promotions of their title track "I Don’t Care". Their mini album hit the no. 3 spot at the Hanteo's "Best-selling Album of 2009" with over 100,000 copies sold.
After a short hiatus, the group released a surprise single "Follow Me" that took number one for the week of February 13. The single was used as a theme song for Samsung Corby Folder.
In October of the same year, 2NE1 returned with their first full-length debut studio album To Anyone, which was released on September 9, 2010. Promotions started with the simultaneous showcase of the three title tracks of the album, "Clap Your Hands", "Go Away" and "Can't Nobody". Following those promotions, another song "It Hurts (Slow)" was released on October 31 for Halloween. The album garnered huge success and 2NE1 won an overall 11 times on various music shows from their promotions. The album went on to sell over 150,000 copies.
Solo activities: 2009 - present
Before her debut, she was featured in a TV drama The Return of Iljimae as Rie, and she also appeared as the lead actress in Gummy's music video for "I'm Sorry", together with labelmate T.O.P, one of the members of Big Bang.
In August 2009, Park was featured on G-Dragon's solo album Heartbreaker, with their song entitled "Hello". They performed together a couple of times on music events, shows, and also during G-Dragon's two-day solo concert entitled Shine A Light in December 2009.
On September 7, 2009, Park was the first among the members of 2NE1 to release a digital single. Entitled "Kiss", the song was produced by Teddy Park and was featured in Park's first commercial for Oriental Brewery's Cass Beer series alongside K-Drama actor Lee Min Ho. The song also featured fellow member CL as a rapper and peaked at #5 on the Gaon Chart.
In July 2010, Park was featured as the female lead in Taeyang's "I Need A Girl" music video. Two versions were made for the music video.
In April 18, 2011, Park announced that she has been officially promoted to the Communications Director of 2NE1. In order to officialize her promotion, YG Entertainment gave Park her own Certificate of Appointment.
On June 27, 2012, Park's Philippine Movies were shown in Korea. The films "Bcuz of U", "The Lucky Ones", and "Can This Be Love" were shown on the said date on Korea's Home Choice and SK Broadband.
On May 14, 2014, Sandara Park entered the Big Brother house as a celebrity houseguest during the live episode of Pinoy Big Brother: All In Über.
In the last episode of the highly rated Korean drama "My Love from the Star", Sandara made a surprised cameo appearance playing a Top Actress.
On November 12, 2014, BeFunny Studios released a 3-part mini web series starring The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun and Sandara Park titled "What's eating Steven Yeun". Sandara played the role of Steven Yeun's girlfriend in this hilarious comedy sketch about the popular Korean internet craze called "Mokbang". Mokbang broadcasts are online broadcasts where people who are usually attractive eat in front of a webcam and get paid for it.
On January 21, 2015, it was revealed that Sandara was casted alongside rising star Kim Young-kwang as the leads in the web drama series tentatively titled "Dr. Mo Clinic" It marked Sandara's re-entry to acting since debuting as a member of 2NE1 in 2009. The drama, changed to 'Dr. Ian', premiered on March 28, 2015 and consisted of 9 episodes.
On April 9, 2015, Sandara was cast in her second leading role of the year in another web drama based upon a web-toon of the same name, "We broke up". She played the role of Noh Woori, a character described as an optimistic and bright female preparing to get a job. We Broke Up premiered on June 29.
Sandara, together with Kang Seungyoon, was revealed on May 17, 2015 to do a cameo appearance in the hit television series "The Producers". She appeared as herself as part of the new members of the fictional 2 days and 1 night variety program in episodes 4, 5, and 12.
On July 24, 2015, Sandara was cast as the lead in the yet to be titled Korean film remake of Begin Again. She will be playing a convenience store part-timer who seeks out a mysterious melody she hears every night in her dreams, and meets the producer of an Internet broadcasting program who tries to help her find out the music.
On August 27, 2015, it was announced that Sandara Park joined Penshoppe as its newest ambassador through its Instagram account.
On September 15, 2015, Sandara was revealed to have been casted as the lead in what will be her first television-aired show, 'Missing Korea'. Set to air in October, Missing Korea is a romantic-comedy set in the fictional year of 2020, in which the North and South are working towards unification through non-governmental exchanges and economic cooperation, leading to the first-ever ′North-South Joint Miss Korea Pageant.′ Goong star Kim Jeong Hoon, is set to play opposite her as head of the pageant′s organizing committee.
On October 5, 2015, it was revealed that Sandara would be hosting the JTBC show 'Two Yoo Project - Sugar Man' alongside Yoo Jae Suk, Yoo Hee Yeol, and Kim Eana. The show aims to seek out once-popular singers, recreate their songs, and make it a hit once more in the present day. Having already aired its pilot episode in August, the first episode officially broadcasted on October 20. This is Sandara's first variety show hosting since debuting with 2NE1 in 2009.
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Birth name Sandara Park (박산다라)
Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 12 november 1984 (40 years) at Busan (Coree du sud)
Nationality Coree du sud
Birth 12 november 1984 (40 years) at Busan (Coree du sud)
Aside from her native Korean, Sandara is also fluent in Tagalog and English languages due to her stay in the Philippines. She also speaks Chinese and Japanese, both on conversational level.
She released her first digital single "Kiss" in South Korea in 2009 and it was included as the 9th track in 2NE1's first studio album To Anyone in 2010.
Biography
Early life and careerDara was born in Busan, South Korea, when she was 10 years old, her family moved to the Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines to start a trading business.
In 2004, during one of her school activities, she met Pauleen Luna, a former talent of ABS-CBN Corporation Channel 2's Talent Center. Luna encouraged Park to audition for Star Circle Quest, a reality-based talent search television program. Over the course of the season, she escaped elimination several times, and reached the final ten contestants. Her Korean ethnicity resulted in some trouble with the daily exercises set by the panel of Filipino judges. During the last elimination round (in which only five people advanced), Park received approximately half a million text votes. She eventually finished in second place behind Hero Angeles.
Park joined ABS-CBN's entertainment stable called Star Magic in the wake of her success in the show, with her projects ranging from commercial endorsements to television appearances. She starred in her first movie Bcuz Of U (2004), a three-story movie. She acted alongside Hero Angeles, Kristine Hermosa and Heart Evangelista. Park won "Best New Actress", her first acting award, in the 21st Philippine Movie Press Club Star Awards. Park and Angeles launched their first solo movie, Can This Be Love (2005) which reportedly grossed almost 100 million pesos. Park was also nominated for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy)" at the 2006 Golden Screen Awards. Her third movie in the country was D' Lucky Ones (2006) wherein she was paired with co-SCQ alumnus, Joseph Bitangcol due to Angeles' decision to retire from show business. In the same year, her fourth and last movie Super Noypi was shown in Christmas 2006 and was an official entry into the 32nd Metro Manila Film Festival. The success of Park in the Philippines lead her to star in a drama series. One was Krystala, a fantasy series with Judy Ann Santos. She also acted in various series Crazy For You (2006) and Abt Ur Luv (2006) and television specials My Name is Sandara Park (2004) and SCQ Reload: OK Ako! (2004).
Park also embarked on a musical career that led to the release of her self-titled six-track album that contained the novelty dance hit "In or Out", a song that parodied her experiences on Star Circle Quest.
In December 2004, YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun Suk offered Park workshop classes in South Korea after seeing the KBS Documentary My Name Is Sandara Park. In March 2005, Park went ahead with the workshops, putting her career in the Philippines on hold. After six months, she resumed work in the Philippines, starring in several movies. She left the Philippines show business industry permanently and returned to South Korea with her family on August 1, 2007. YG Entertainment announced the following day that Park had signed a contract with them.
2NE1
The group's name was initially announced as "21"; however, due to the discovery of a singer with the same name, the group was renamed "2NE1", which "NE" is the abbreviation of "New Evolution". Sandara was placed in 2NE1, alongside Bom, Minzy and CL.
The group collaborated with label-mate senior Big Bang for the song "Lollipop". 2NE1 debuted in SBS's The Music Trend on May 17, 2009 where they performed their digital single "Fire" produced by Teddy Park of 1TYM. With the release of their self-titled mini-album, the group started the promotions of their title track "I Don’t Care". Their mini album hit the no. 3 spot at the Hanteo's "Best-selling Album of 2009" with over 100,000 copies sold.
After a short hiatus, the group released a surprise single "Follow Me" that took number one for the week of February 13. The single was used as a theme song for Samsung Corby Folder.
In October of the same year, 2NE1 returned with their first full-length debut studio album To Anyone, which was released on September 9, 2010. Promotions started with the simultaneous showcase of the three title tracks of the album, "Clap Your Hands", "Go Away" and "Can't Nobody". Following those promotions, another song "It Hurts (Slow)" was released on October 31 for Halloween. The album garnered huge success and 2NE1 won an overall 11 times on various music shows from their promotions. The album went on to sell over 150,000 copies.
Solo activities: 2009 - present
Before her debut, she was featured in a TV drama The Return of Iljimae as Rie, and she also appeared as the lead actress in Gummy's music video for "I'm Sorry", together with labelmate T.O.P, one of the members of Big Bang.
In August 2009, Park was featured on G-Dragon's solo album Heartbreaker, with their song entitled "Hello". They performed together a couple of times on music events, shows, and also during G-Dragon's two-day solo concert entitled Shine A Light in December 2009.
On September 7, 2009, Park was the first among the members of 2NE1 to release a digital single. Entitled "Kiss", the song was produced by Teddy Park and was featured in Park's first commercial for Oriental Brewery's Cass Beer series alongside K-Drama actor Lee Min Ho. The song also featured fellow member CL as a rapper and peaked at #5 on the Gaon Chart.
In July 2010, Park was featured as the female lead in Taeyang's "I Need A Girl" music video. Two versions were made for the music video.
In April 18, 2011, Park announced that she has been officially promoted to the Communications Director of 2NE1. In order to officialize her promotion, YG Entertainment gave Park her own Certificate of Appointment.
On June 27, 2012, Park's Philippine Movies were shown in Korea. The films "Bcuz of U", "The Lucky Ones", and "Can This Be Love" were shown on the said date on Korea's Home Choice and SK Broadband.
On May 14, 2014, Sandara Park entered the Big Brother house as a celebrity houseguest during the live episode of Pinoy Big Brother: All In Über.
In the last episode of the highly rated Korean drama "My Love from the Star", Sandara made a surprised cameo appearance playing a Top Actress.
On November 12, 2014, BeFunny Studios released a 3-part mini web series starring The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun and Sandara Park titled "What's eating Steven Yeun". Sandara played the role of Steven Yeun's girlfriend in this hilarious comedy sketch about the popular Korean internet craze called "Mokbang". Mokbang broadcasts are online broadcasts where people who are usually attractive eat in front of a webcam and get paid for it.
On January 21, 2015, it was revealed that Sandara was casted alongside rising star Kim Young-kwang as the leads in the web drama series tentatively titled "Dr. Mo Clinic" It marked Sandara's re-entry to acting since debuting as a member of 2NE1 in 2009. The drama, changed to 'Dr. Ian', premiered on March 28, 2015 and consisted of 9 episodes.
On April 9, 2015, Sandara was cast in her second leading role of the year in another web drama based upon a web-toon of the same name, "We broke up". She played the role of Noh Woori, a character described as an optimistic and bright female preparing to get a job. We Broke Up premiered on June 29.
Sandara, together with Kang Seungyoon, was revealed on May 17, 2015 to do a cameo appearance in the hit television series "The Producers". She appeared as herself as part of the new members of the fictional 2 days and 1 night variety program in episodes 4, 5, and 12.
On July 24, 2015, Sandara was cast as the lead in the yet to be titled Korean film remake of Begin Again. She will be playing a convenience store part-timer who seeks out a mysterious melody she hears every night in her dreams, and meets the producer of an Internet broadcasting program who tries to help her find out the music.
On August 27, 2015, it was announced that Sandara Park joined Penshoppe as its newest ambassador through its Instagram account.
On September 15, 2015, Sandara was revealed to have been casted as the lead in what will be her first television-aired show, 'Missing Korea'. Set to air in October, Missing Korea is a romantic-comedy set in the fictional year of 2020, in which the North and South are working towards unification through non-governmental exchanges and economic cooperation, leading to the first-ever ′North-South Joint Miss Korea Pageant.′ Goong star Kim Jeong Hoon, is set to play opposite her as head of the pageant′s organizing committee.
On October 5, 2015, it was revealed that Sandara would be hosting the JTBC show 'Two Yoo Project - Sugar Man' alongside Yoo Jae Suk, Yoo Hee Yeol, and Kim Eana. The show aims to seek out once-popular singers, recreate their songs, and make it a hit once more in the present day. Having already aired its pilot episode in August, the first episode officially broadcasted on October 20. This is Sandara's first variety show hosting since debuting with 2NE1 in 2009.
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Girlfriends (2009)
, 1h54Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Kang Hye-jeong, Han Chae-young, Huh E-jae, Bae Soo-bin, Kim Hye-ok, Park Bom
Rating53%
29-year-old Song-yi (Kang Hye-jung) starts dating her handsome co-worker Jin-ho (Bae Soo-bin). But when she suspects Jin-ho might be cheating on her, she sets out to meet the "other woman," only to learn that he has not one, but two, other "girlfriends": Jin (Han Chae-young), Jin-ho's first love, is a sexy and successful party planner, while Bo-ra (Huh E-jae) is a fearless, young college student. On one hand, Song-yi wants to keep Jin-ho all to herself, but strangely enough, she grows close to the two other women and their similar taste in men becomes the basis of a great friendship.
D' Lucky Ones! (2006)
, 1h46Directed by Wenn V. Deramas
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Eugene Domingo, Pokwang, Dara, Joseph Bitangcol, Nikki Valdez, Candy Pangilinan
Roles Lucky Girl
Rating66%
Tina (Domingo) and Lea (Pokwang) have been best friends since they met in a concert of their idolized actress Vilma Santos. Suddenly, Lea decides to go to South Korea to find a better job. Years later, Tina gives birth to a boy while Lea gives birth to a girl. They name the two Lucky Boy and Lucky Girl to commemorate Vilma's son Luis "Lucky" Manzano. They then vowed to each other that their children will marry in the appropriate time. However, as Lucky Boy and Lucky Girl grow up, the children have started hating their mothers for ruining their childhoods after Tina and Lea arranged their parties with themes of Vilma Santos' films.
Super Noypi (2006)
Origin Philippines
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Mark Herras, Jao Mapa, Jennylyn Mercado, Aubrey Miles, John Prats, Dara
Roles Michie
Rating58%
Can This Be Love (2005)
, 1h46Directed by Jose Javier Reyes
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Dara, Hero Angeles, Joross Gamboa, Roxanne Guinoo, Tirso Cruz III, Paw Diaz
Roles Daisy
Rating60%
Ryan (Hero Angeles) and Daisy (Sandara Park) are just among the many students in the Filipino University Belt. Ryan is a part-time typist of term papers, while Daisy is a Korean immigrant studying in the Philippines. Ryan encounters what he thinks is the worst term paper ever written. At that same day, he also comes across a cellphone ad. He contacts the person selling the phone and eventually became friends with her. Then he discovers that the girl he is talking with on the phone and the owner of the term paper is one and the same- the Korean girl! Ryan and Daisy develop an instant irritation towards each other. The cultural differences and the language barrier add to their frustration. But since they have also developed a friendship through their text messages before they met, both decide to give love a chance.
Bcuz Of U (2004)
, 1h56Directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Heart Evangelista, Dara, Kristine Hermosa, Geoff Eigenmann, Hero Angeles, Diether Ocampo
Roles April
Rating66%
A runaway bride returns, a woman falls for her worst nightmare and two opposites come together in this trio of romantic tales. In the first story, Ria (Kristine Hermosa) tries to win back the man (Diether Ocampo) she left at the altar. In tale two, solitary Cara (Heart Evangelista) meets Mr. Wrong (Geoff Eigenmann) -- or is he? And in the final yarn, a tour guide (Hero Angeles) meets a girl (Sandara Park) who pretends to be a famous actress.
Volta (2004)
, 1h34Directed by Wenn V. Deramas
Origin Philippines
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ai-Ai de las Alas, Diether Ocampo, Jean Garcia, Bobby Andrews, Onemig Bondoc, Eugene Domingo
Roles Herself
Rating51%
Perla is a dressmaker who lives and works for her siblings, Percy and Penny. After being hit by lightning thrice, Perla discovers that she has developed superpowers: She can generate heat and electricity with her hands, and lightning flashes come out of her hands. With these superpowers, she becomes famous as the superhero, Volta.