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Sandara Park
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South Korean rapper, singer, model and actress (1984-)
Film & TV
Acting · Busan, South Korea
Sandara Park (박산다라), also known mononymously as Dara (다라), is a South Korean singer, actress and television presenter. She is best known as a member of k-pop girl group, 2NE1. However, she rose to fame in the Philippines as a contestant on the talent show Star Circle Quest in 2004, after which she had a successful acting and singing career before returning to South Korea in 2007.
Known for
- Be the NEXT: 9 Dreamers — Self - Host2025
- ZIP DAESUNG — Self2024
- MONSTOP Travel Agency — self (Sandara Park)2023
- 한 살이라도 어릴 때2023
- Jae Joong and Friends2023
- 100 Days Miracle — Self2023
- Fu Bao & Grandpa2023
- Music Universe K-909 — Self2022
- Running Man Philippines — Self2022
- K-Pop Evolution2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1984
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17,528
- Total plays
- 207,321
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Sandara Park (Korean: 박산다라, born November 12, 1984 in Busan, South Korea) is a television personality who is also called "Dara" as one of the vocal members of Korean Girl Group 2NE1. She is a former Korean expatriate who once starred in movies and television shows in the Philippines. Her unusual three-syllable Korean name, which she has talked about numerous times during interviews, comes from that of a Korean general, Kim Yushin, whose childhood name was "Sandara (산다라)". <a href="https://www.l
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,647x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 17,256x
- Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 16,627x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,384x
- Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype
· 2019 · cited 13,750x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1984-11-12 ) November 12, 1984 (age 41) , Busan , South Korea
- Other name
- Dara
- Occupations
- Singer actress television host
- Agent
- Star Magic (2004–2007)
- Relatives
- Thunder (brother)
- Genres
- K-pop R&B hip hop
- Instrument
- Vocals
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Labels
- Star YG Abyss Company
- Member of
- 2NE1
- Hangul
- 박산다라
- Rr
- Bak Sandara
- Mr
- Pak Sandara
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.ygfamily.com/artist/About.asp?LANGDIV=K&ATYPE=2&ARTIDX=29
- Image
- Sandara Park Airport Departure 2022 2 (cropped).jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1984-11-12
- Commons category
- Sandara Park
- pseudonym
- Sandy Park
- name in native language
- 박산다라
- Revised Romanization
- Bak Sandara
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Pak Sandara
- start of work period
- 2009-00-00
- social media followers
- 1530000
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Sandara Park (Korean: 박산다라; born November 12, 1984), also known mononymously as Dara (다라), is a South Korean singer, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in the Philippines as a contestant on the ABS-CBN original talent show Star Circle Quest in 2004, after which she had a successful acting and singing career before returning to South Korea in 2007. She made her Korean debut in 2009 as a member of the K-pop group 2NE1, which became one of the most popular K-pop groups in the world. Park is one of the most recognizable Korean celebrities in the Philippines and is considered a leading figure in the spread of Korean wave into the country.
In 2004, Park released her first extended play (EP), Sandara, which sold over 100,000 physical copies, making it the only album by a South Korean artist to be certified platinum by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI). She acted in several Philippine films between 2004 and 2007, including Bcuz of U (2004), for which she won the award for Best New Actress at the 21st PMPC Star Awards for Movies. In 2009, Park released her first Korean single, "Kiss", featuring fellow 2NE1 member CL.