Sandara Park is a Korean who found her star in the Philippines. She was still very young when her family migrated to the Philippines due to financial difficulties experienced by her family in Korea. They lived in a modest apartment in the Philippines as her father tried his luck in his business there.

Sandara then attended school there and learned the national language of the Philippines which is Tagalog or Filipino. When she was in high school, her friend asked her to join in a reality star search sponsored by ABS-CBN. She joined and fortunately, she placed as runner-up in the said reality search.

Only few critics has given Sandara the chance for the competition mentioned above. Being a Korean, she has no relatives in the Philippines to vote for her via text messaging. But contrary to that, she garnered a very high score/vote in the SMS voting and that influenced her rank in the contest. She was so charismatic that literally captivated the whole Filipino nation.

After the contest, Sandara's star began to shine in Philippine showbiz. She was given TV projects and some product endorsements. She also had movies and one of her movies even broke into the Philippines' box office record.

But after those glorious days in her movie career, Sandara's star begins to fade. Her father's business was also not doing good and the family starts to experience financial problems again. According to some showbiz scribes, this is the reason why Sandara accepted a project with a men's magazine where she is going to pose "very sexy" exposing her very young body. The pictorial was however professionally done and Sandara has nothing to be ashamed of.

After that stint, Sandara and her family migrated back to South Korea. When YG Entertainment learned of Sandara's return to Korea, they immediately contracted her as trainee that prepared Sandara for bugger things to come. She was tested with different partners/groups and they found her performance very satisfactory.

When YG Entertainment decided to make a female counterpart of Big Bang, they decided to include Sandara in the all-female pop group - 2NE1. It is in 2NE1 where Sandara's star begins to shine again, not only in Korea but in whole Asia as well.

The group was so popular the all of their singles became a hit in Korea and one song even topped the charts in the very day it was released. As of this writing, Sandara has already released her single and is now making waves in South Korea.

She visited the Philippines during her stint as 2NE1 member and the people there accepted her once again and wowed the Filipinos again as she still knows the language and acted as the old Sandara the Filipinos know well.