Why Park Bom but Sandara Park?

[koganbot]

Is it that Dara first came to fame in the Philippines? Or is Wikipedia just fucking with me?

(But everyone on YouTube agrees with Wikip.)

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[askbask.livejournal.com]

That's got to be it... a suitable stage name ready-made from the Phillipines. If you're a Korean-American called Daniel Lee and go to Korea they'll call you Daniel Lee, and Sandara is, I suppose, a semi-foreigner having spent so much time in the Phillipines. Neither three-syllable nor one-syllable given names are that common in Korea, so Bom's name is also pretty catchy.

[troisroyaumes]

Listed on Naver as Bak Sandara, but her albums are labeled Sandara Bak, so I'm assuming it's her/her agency's personal choice. Korean news articles seem to put family name first but there are some interviews with the family name last.