UPDATED with better translation 🙂

Sandara Park’s description – Young Dara’s favourite machine with a mike

Sandara. Her name in Korean means ‘to be wise and brilliant’. This came form Kim Yu-shins’ childhood name. Affiliated with 2NE1, a person who sings.

From early on Sandara Park (26, full name Sandara Park) particularly liked to play with cassette tapes and mikes. Her biggest interest was in ‘fashion’. The clothes loving little kid who liked to wear the then fashionable flared pants, was a ‘fashion guru’ wearing hats to accentuate her fashion. Perhaps this was a phase that helped her to prepare for becoming an artist.

“My parents told me when I was little, my favorite toy was a cassette-player that had a mike attached to it. I don’t remember it very well. (Laughs) I only knew after looking at pictures. I remember liking clothes. Since I was small I’ve been interested in clothes. I don’t know why. I think I liked spending the time to pick out my outfits.”

Sandara Park was born in Busan and when she was 3rd grade moved to Dae-gu. Sandara Park, who instead of the working parents took good care of her brother, started to dream of being an ‘entertainer’ after hearing the song “I know”.

“When I was in 2nd grade, Seo Tai Ji and Kids debuted. Seo Tai Ji and Kid’s songs, clothes, and dance let me dream of being an ‘entertainer’. And also, when watching child-actors on TV, that pulled my blood/pulled me in. When I saw kids my age act I thought, ‘Ah, I want to do that too’.”

Sandara Park’s description – In 3rd grade in 1993 at the zoo in Dae-gu, carrying my baby brother Thunder on my back. I was wearing fashionable bell-bottoms.

In 4th grade, her dream stopped growing. Sandara Park had to put her dream on hold as her family and she moved to Philippines with her father who worked in the trade industry.

“I didn’t want to go and cried every day. I said I didn’t want to go, and would be left here in Korea alone. But eventually I got on the plane crying.”

The amount of times she said she didn’t want to go to the Philippines was the time it took for her to get situated in the Philippines. The Philippine culture and language barrier made the young Sandara Park timid and scared. [She said] that she was afraid to speak to people and talked less and less as time went on.

“There was no discrimination. Rather the Philippine people liked Koreans. It’s just that we couldn’t communicate since I did not understand their language. I was just ignorant.”

Sandara Park, who dreamed of becoming an ‘entertainer’, experienced hardships while living in the Philippines. As time went on, her feelings of loneliness grew and Sandara Park became pessimistic. Her tears increased too. However looking back, just like the fertile ground after the rain [for us it’s the rainbow after the rain], this was training that helped Sandara Park to get though her hard trainee days.

“To the local students, my pronunciations were probably awkward and weird. Kids started to imitate me and make fun of me. My attitude became more passive. When I said I wanted to become an entertainer, friends made sarcastic remarks saying ‘You can’t even talk, how are you going to become an entertainer?’. That gave me a shock and I didn’t talk afterwards. Because of that, people around me thought I was a mute.”

However young Sandara Park slowly worked her way back to her feet. She worked alone for one year to improve her pronunciation. With her language proficiency improving, her fear of people slowly disappeared too. Like a ray of sunshine through the dark clouds, her old bright personality came back through the pessimistic one and she also made friends.

Sandara Park’s description – Dara and her favorite Walkman cassette. Hair perm is impressive right?

Little Sandara Park’s profile
Nickname: Fashion leader
Birthplace: Busan
Bloodtype: A
Favorite color: Red
Favorite items: Mike, Cassette
Favorite artists: Seo Tai Ji and Kids, Lee Hyori
Future dream: Entertainer

Sandara Park’s description – During a picnic in 1st grade. Blue jeans and blue hat? I was a fashion leader.

Next installment will be on March 9, 8AM.

source: asiae.co.kr

Credit: YGSecret21

Translated by lovesong @ ygsecret21.com

thanks to: rianna and daphnekooki for the tip 🙂