The New Sandara Park as " Dara "

Sandara Park started her showbiz career in the Philippines in 2004 through “Star Circle Quest” and finally came back to Korea in August 2007. Since then, she has been receiving acting trainings. 

Sandara Park joined ABS-CBN's entertainment stable called Star Magic. In the height of her career, she gained a lot of support from Filipino fans. Her projects ranged from commercial endorsements to TV appearances. Sandara embarked on a musical career which led to the release of her self-titled album that contained the novelty dance hit "In or Out". The album sold at least 60,000 copies after 6 months of its release. She, alongside with Hero Angeles succeeded in movies as a loveteam but later on, Sandara ventured on movies without her on-screen partner.

In December 2004, YG Entertainment's Yang Hyun Suk offered Sandara workshop classes in South Korea after seeing the ABS Documentary My Name Is Sandara Park. In March 2005,she 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.

Sandara left the Philippines show business industry and returned to South Korea with her family on August 1, 2007.YG Entertainment announced the following day that Sandara Park had signed a contract with them.
 
From the name Sandara Park, she was reborn as "Dara". Sandara Park’s popularity rose among Netizens following news that BIG BANG member T.O.P. acted a kissing scene with her in Gummy’s “I’m Sorry” music video.  March 7, 2008, the keyword “Sandara Park” ranked 1st in Naver’s “real-time most searched” list followed by “Gummy I’m Sorry,” “Gummy,” “TOP,” and “TOP Kiss Scene,” respectively. In Daum’s “real-time news search” list, “TOP Kiss Scene” ranked 2nd while “Sandara Park” ranked 4th.

Because of the unexpected turn of events, YG Entertainment could not help but express its surprise and a hint on what is next to come for Sandara Park.

“We didn’t know that Sandara Park will be receiving this kind of hot reaction. She’ll soon officially debut as an actress in a drama. She left the Philippines for a career in Korea and that’s sad. But after establishing a strong base here, we’re planning on doing promotions in the Philippines.”

It was announced on 14th October, 2008 that YG Entertainment will reveal the new girl's group and they will debut in May next year.”

Yang Hyun Seok also said, “The final decision is that they will debut next February after sorting out the various preparations for their debut. This new female group will consist of at least 4 member, if not 5, though we have not come to a final decision on that yet. But we are confident that they will be a strong group which will display a different type of charisma for fans.” 

2NE1 was first mentioned by South Korean press in late 2004 before YG Entertainment announced in early 2009 that the group would consist of four members and debut sometime in May of that year.The company stated that the group had trained for four years, and that their debut album would contain songs produced by 1TYM's leader Teddy Park. The group's name was initially announced as "21"; however, due to the discovery of a singer with the same name, the group was quickly renamed "2NE1".

The group consist of CL, the leader of the group, Bom Park, lead vocalist, Minzy, main vocalist and dancer and Sandara Park as " Dara ", vocalist and face of the group.

On March 27, 2009, 2NE1 was featured in a commercial for the LG phone Lollipop with Big Bang. The group then gained popularity and was labelled the Female Big Bang and their debut became a hot topic in South Korea and overseas. 

Dara was the first among the members of 2NE1 to release a digital single entitled "Kiss" on September 7, 2009. The song was produced by Teddy Park and was featured in Sandara's first ever commercial for Cass Beer alongside with Lee Min Ho - a famous KDrama actor. 

And the saga continues ... and Dara is considered one of the most sought celebrity in Korea and a global sensation today.

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