Congratulations to Sandara Park for winning 1st runner up in the Philippines Star Circle Quest!! I'm a Filipina and Im her number one fan! I hope I could see her in personal!! Even though she's 100% Korean but Filipina of heart! Sandara RULZ!!

oh 2nd place? congrats

i hear alot about her all over the net.

may i see pictures of her please?

SCQ Reload







Womens Journal Cover

she alright. Kinda cute, but nothing special. hehe

click me! click me! click me! click me! click me!

WAT'S A url???

DUMB QUESTION RIGHT

sandara

OMGosh if your going to post this you should have done it in the filipino forum.

This is in the Korean chat

SANDARA!!!!! YEAH< shes cute! she reminds me of filipino actor HEart evangelista

does she speak tagalog?

Yup , she could understand Tagalog!

she's cute... but there're a lot of prettier gals in korea... good for her she made it in the philippines! congratulations!

but i wish she didn't say she was "pure" filipina by heart.... that would make her ancestors frown and her kinsmen say: tsk,tsk,tsk...

note: my korean friends over here in the philippines don't like her! none of them do!

oh can they understand tagalog also? thats cool, i knever knew theres a handful of korean living in the philippines

^the dasmarinas-silang-tagaytay area has a lot of koreans... some speak superb-tagalog, some just a few... depends on how many years they've stayed here...

i owe my korean to them...

^ mayn thats tight, so u can speak lil korean?

So there were alot of Koreans in that area?

How about Koreans marrying Filipinos?

i know shouldnt this be in the Filipino section? i mean she maybe big in the filipines but not in korea.

Tell that to the moderators in this Korean forum!

whoa there, didnt meant any harm. i mean, for example: takeshi,crystal kay,boa are all suposed to be in the japanese section because they are part of the japanese entertainment industry, right?

uh-huh.... i speak a lil korean.... 네, 하지만, 아직 유창하게 못해요!

i don't think there'r any who marry filipinos.... only a very few i guess...

Yes somebody agrees with me. All these posts of Sandara could have helped us in increasing our number of posts in the Philippine chat.

i think theres already a sandara thread in the PI chat.
or it was generally for starcircle quest?

Sandara: The Next Big Star

ABS-CBN is dead serious to make the most out of Sandara by giving her a well-thought of superstardom plan. All the makings of a star are already with her. Based on inside information, ABS-CBN is already clearing the way for Sandara's road to formidable fame. Her innate charisma, talent, and stellar potentials will give other star wannabes in and outside of ABS-CBN a run for their money. At first people thought of Sandy as a novelty, a flash in the pan, an overnight sensation enjoying 15 minutes of fame. But ABS-CBN has seen the magnitude of the Sandara's power to the masses and has taken to heart to put her among the constellation of stars.

So guys, hang on. If this plans push through, will Hero be far behind? Of course not. ABS-CBN is banking on these two newcomers and their awesome phenomena.
Part of the drawback however is, fans can expect other stars will be paired to each of them to ride on to their fame. It's a formula every media/film outfit utilizes to take care of other actors in its stable. But rest assured this will all happen after both Hero and Sandara have reached their rightful place in the famedom.

OMGosh somebody move this thread to PI Chat already. I don't think anybody in Korean Chat cares about an celeb. in the Philippines.

Yeah, she's alright but nothing to get overly excited about. You can see a lot of finer looking Korean women in front of Ehwa Women's Uni or in / front of that McDonald's across the street from Grand Dept. Store in Apkujungdong.

So, Sandara isn’t really as cold as ice
By Gabby Libarios


Inside Dressing Room 12 of ABS-CBN, a small crowd sat in silence in chairs near the mirror and facing a television monitor. The tables were littered with candy wrappers and Styrofoam to-go food packs. The floor, strangely enough, was clean.

A few minutes later, Melissa, Neri, Michelle, Errol, and the rest of the Star Circle questors came barging into the room, swinging the door wide open, and screaming in panic. Commercial breaks run under three minutes only, so they had to change clothes really quick, even if they’d lose a limb in the process. Scampering behind them was costume mistress Sarsi, telling them for what seemed like the 10th time to hurry up, and shrieking, and cursing every expletive known to man.

That’s the scene in that dressing room every week during the tapings of ASAP Fanatic. The dressing room transforms into one giant mess and battleground.

While most of the young celebrities would hobble across the room trying to fit their shoes or jump into their dresses, Sandara Park seemed to be doing everything at her own pace. Undisturbed. Relaxed. Irritatingly calm to most people in the room.

But then again, she’s always been like this. Always taking her precious sweet time. As they say, you get to live out your childhood dream only once, so you might as well make the most of it.

Starting young

Ever since she was a kid, Sandara Park has always been a dreamer. When she auditioned for a slot in Star Circle Quest she had nothing with her but a dream of striking gold in the showbiz industry.

Understandably so, because Sandara’s family moved to the Philippines in 1995 after her parents ran into financial woes back in their native Korea.

When Sandy—that’s how she’s known among friends—came to Manila she hardly knew how to speak in English, much less, in Filipino. As a result, she became a loner. But that didn’t faze her at all. The bright-eyed Sandy was a naturally talkative kid. Never mind if she would be at times the butt of joke for mispronouncing words. So when she started opening up, friends started pouring in.

“I can do it,” said the 19-year-old TV celebrity with so much conviction that she startled a few persons sitting nearby.

Sandy lives and breathes those words. The only thing she can remember giving up is her piano lessons a couple of years ago as most of her classmates there were just a bunch of kids who never stopped laughing at her.

“I could not shout at them because they were just kids,” said Sandara.

But she doesn’t let this get the better of her. All it would take was a steaming bowl of sinigang or her favorite fried chicken to brighten up her day again. Or, if all else fails, she would turn to her computer and get lost in the information superhighway, either surfing to find her favorite Korean singer Lee Hyo Ri and Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez or just chatting with friends back in Korea.

Reach for the stars

When Neri, a fellow questor, was booted out of SCQ’s Magic 5 selection, it became so controversial that the show was dissed by a lot of people.

Indeed, it was a tough decision for the judges to make since a mere .2 spelled the difference. What most people didn’t know was that it was a tougher pill for Sandara to swallow.

“I know Neri is more talented than I,” she admitted in an interview, adding that they all exerted effort to be their best. At some point during the competition, Sandy said she even wanted to cry because she felt everybody in Aliw Theater hated her.

But despite the huge brouhaha the decision caused, Sandara was not yet ready to throw in the towel just like that. She took into herself to prove to the people who believed and txted for her that she deserved her keep in the Magic 5.

It’s only when she saw the immense number of crowd screaming out her name and rooting for her that she knew there was nothing to do but to move forward.

Despite the victory of the talented and much- favored Hero Angeles, Sandara still kept her hopes high. And it proved her right. As most Olympians would put it, after falling short in a heated gold medal match, “I did not lose the gold. I won the silver.”

Sandy might not have won the title, but she’s earned the attention of countless fans, something far greater than one million.

Aside from the regular tapings for Sandara’s Romance, ASAP Fanatic, and SCQ Reload, five commercials and other promos are waiting for the young star.

With a schedule so packed, small wonder this kid has no time to even go to the mall to buy her own clothes. Handler Anna Yambao, whom Sandy fondly calls Anna Banana, said that there are times when she’s the one who rushes to the nearest mall just to buy Sandy some stuff.

We love Sandy

When it comes to the looks department, Sandy is obviously raking in gold medals. It doesn’t take an Einstein just to figure out that this girl has a face that can launch a thousand ships, so to speak.

Ever since she raised her hand for that now famous wave and smiled on camera, Sandy became an instant darling. (Hey, she did not earn those 500,000 votes in less than a week for nothing!)

Apart from over 5,000 search results of Web pages carrying her name, Sandy has a growing yahoogroup with more than 2,000 members, an amazing 500 Friendster accounts of registered wannabes, and a never-ending forum generating thousands of replies from die-hard followers every day. Not to mention the legions of angry fans defending Sandy from those “obnoxious ones” who pit her against Starstruck ultimate survivor Jennylyn Mercado. Beneath their grammatically-challenged barbs, and often times empty words, the fans give Sandy reason to keep on running her hand doing that famous wave and smile.

“Maybe because I’m not boring. People think I am funny,” she giggles, admitting that it hurts her when people don’t understand her jokes. “Sometimes my jokes really come out corny. It’s just so embarrassing.”

With all the blessings she’s enjoying, what else could Sandara ask for? “I want to have an album, but not like In or Out. I want to have an album like one of those of Regine Velasquez, something serious. I want people to take me as a serious performer,” she concludes.

Did she say she wants to be recognized like Regine Velasquez in singing?

she should start training now to achive the Regine Velasquez voice quality!

I'll move this one back to PI.. So did she win?

She was in the top 3... and she is very popular these days so in a way...

Hmmmm, why dont they like her?

ahaha nice pic, jokes lang, i changed my account, dati si tsinooy1 ako, just so you guys know ...hehehe

me 2!!! im curly there how about u?

pretty sandara

What happened to your old account?

here's the latest article on SANDY!




EVERYBODY LOVES SANDARA
Rachel Suaverdez Huerto
MR.& MS. Magazine
Oct. 5, 2004

Her guard was up. Every question asked was met by furrowed brow. She digested each one as if her answer would mean the end of her fast rising career. Understandably so since Sandara Park had been the target of ill rumor since she started in show biz.

For those who don’t know it still, Sandara was always the texters’ choice during the Star Circle Quest mainly because she happened to be Korean and because the whole country was still agog with the chinovelas hitting the boobtube. But nitpickers, who couldn’t seem to find anything thrilling about foreigners edging out the locals, weaved a tale of how she bought thousands and thousands of text votes just so she’d stay on and become the grand questor. The bit of gossip was fueled by the jurors’ evaluation of her as she was always among the weakest. The accusations of some that she didn’t have any talent stung. That she was kept afloat by the votes she bought. Sandara admitted to crying night after night during those days. She couldn’t tell her parents or her friends about what she was going through as she didn’t want to unburden her woes on them. Instead, she learned to deal everything on her own.

Coping was not something new to Sandara. She had learned to fend for herself when her family migrated here from Korea. She didn’t know how to speak in English nor Tagalog then so up until she reached high school, Sandara was a recluse.

“When I say something, everybody would laugh at me so I just become pipi. I didn’t have friends until I reached high school. I was very, very shy.”

Then she decided to enroll in Center for Pop Music and slowly, the plucky young lady managed to gather enough confidence to sing on stage. She obviously didn’t stop there. When the opportunity to audition for the Star Circle Quest came up, Sandara didn’t hesitate. She knew she wanted to become an actress like the ones she watched on the Korean channel and videos. She had waited for this long enough.

“I never knew, never thought that I would be the texters’ choice. I never dreamed that I would become the grand questor that was why I was not sad when Hero won the title. I have no regrets. Even if I don’t get to sleep because there are too many things to do, I am okay. Especially since I think more people love me now. Not like before when a lot of people hated me especially during the time Neri was voted out instead of me,” Sandara said.

The ABS-CBN talent admitted to being thrilled by the heartwarming welcome she gets when she has a mall show. She hopes her fans will never change and continue to support her. As far as rumors circulating about her being a playgirl is concerned, Sandara couldn’t care less because it isn’t true anyway. Patrick Garcia is her show biz crush and that is that.

Talent wise, Sandara is working doubly hard to learn how I speak better Tagalog. She has improved a lot, she said proudly, since she has to say her lines in “Sandara’s Romance” in Tagalog. She also likes to sing and wants to take up jazz so she can be like one of the Hotlegs dancers. But she has to put those dancing lessons on hold for the meantime since her schedule is still pretty hectic.

There is still a lot of hard work ahead of her but Sandara does not seem to mind. She obviously likes to pose for the camera. She was doing several poses wearing an anime-inspired costume with Hero and having her picture taken with her young fans when I interviewed her. She was visibly happy with the attention. Indeed the shy, pipi young girl had found her voice and confidence amidst the furor of Tinseltown.

Sandy is really improving a lot

so how many filipina celebrities are there in korea?

Oh Hey Guys, Musta na kayo! Anyway, Theres another Korean Girl who past the auditions For SCQ teen celeb in the Philippines. She had a third screening or something. Does aby one know her name?

by the way, i hope shes cute like sandy...hehehehehe

I did not get her name.

There were more people who had applied in Star Circle Quest than in Star Struck

Ikaw ek ek, bkt di ka sumama sa SCQ hehehe jokes lang...you never know hehehe

Didn't you say the girl was Korean though.