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According to the News

“After a short-lived success in the Philippines, Sandara Park is getting a big break in South Korea where she will be formally launched this month as part of the new Korean pop group 2NE1 (short for 21). The all-female group is slowly but surely becoming popular, with its debut single, Lollipop, already topping music charts….

2NE1 is reportedly being built up as the female version of the popular all-male Korean band Big Bang which performed the song Lollipop with Sandara’s group. The glossy music video (available on YouTube) is a visual delight with first-rate production, and young Koreans love it. Aside from Sandara, 2NE1 is also composed of Park Bom, Lee Chaerin and Gong Minji.

But, added Edmund (who provided Funfare the latest info about Sandara), “The sad part is the bad press Sandara is getting lately after the Korean media and bloggers have dug what they claimed was ‘embarrassing’ past photos of the star once known as the Pambansang Krung-Krung ng Pilipinas.” (Krung-krung is Filipino slang for weird or crazy.)

The “embarrassing” photos were those in UNO (Diether Ocampo’s men’s magazine) three years ago, showing Sandara in “sexy” poses. The Korean press describes the photos as “disturbing” and “inappropriate” especially for someone like Sandara who is being packaged as “sweet and innocent.”

According to My P.O.V.

Sandara “Dara” Parks, Sandy as we call her is very much loved by many Filipinos, we fondly call her “Krung-Krung” not because of its literal meaning in Filipino which is “crazy”, maybe she is a bit weird but because she is not afraid to express herself. She actually changed the meaning of that word into something positive, someone who acts according to what she likes and not of what others dictates her to do.

I believe that the photos were not embarrassing at all, if you still remember at the peak of her success and fame in the Philippines, she went to Korea to study acting, and when she came back, I just can imagine how lost she felt when she realized the world is not the same as when she left.

“She didn’t reckon with the sad reality that in showbiz, absence doesn’t really make the fans’ hearts grow fonder. Soon, Sandara was replaced by another chinita, Kim Chiu, then a Pinoy Big Brother Teen winner and now a superstar.”

The sexy pictures where just what I call a desperate move to regain what was lost without so much support from the bigwigs except for her “true fans” who remained faithful to her. It was not even that bulgar, she was just clad in sexy clothes but you can still see the sweet and young Sandara, not a sexy star ((badly seeking where she will fit in).

She never really acted opposite her character. She was just carried away by the misleading conception in our “showbiz system” wherein teen stars who are trying to be taken seriously as serious actress are posing in sexy magazines to change their image. Remember Rica Peralejo, Angelica Panganiban, Roxanne Guinoo and so on, they all did it. Maybe it worked out well for them, but sadly not for Sandy, and now it is being used against her. But knowing Sandara Parks, she will get by (hopefully!). Go Sandara!