Nichkhun was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California. He was born to a Thai father and a half-Chinese half-Thai mother (his maternal grandmother, who is full Chinese, moved to Thailand when she was 4 years old). Nichkhun has an older brother Nichan, and two younger sisters, Nichthima (Yanin) and Nachjaree (Sherleen). At the age of two, he moved to Thailand with his family and studied at Dhepkanjana School and Tangpiroondham School. At the age of twelve, he studied at Wanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand for a semester and then resumed school in Thailand. He moved back to the United States to graduate at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California. After high school, he worked as a badminton coach for Rosemead High School. At the Los Angeles Korean Music Festival, a Korean agent invited him to audition for JYP Entertainment, owned by Park Jin-young, a K-pop artist and producer. After passing the audition hosted by JYP Entertainment, he signed a ten-year contract with the company but later resigned for an eight-year contract, not including training, and was brought to South Korea in 2006 as a trainee, being put into a class of 24 other students. Park Jin-young informed him that he was required to learn how to sing and to dance, learn Korean and Mandarin Chinese, and to bulk up. He first appeared through MNET's Hot Blood, a program that showed the intense physical training that 13 male trainees had to go through for the opportunity to debut in either a 4-member ballad group 2AM or a 6-member dance group (originally had 7 members until the leader Jay Park left the group) 2PM under JYP Entertainment. Source: Wikipedia

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