SINGAPORE - Young basketball players in Singapore got a big surprise when K-pop star Sandara Park appeared midway through their game on the morning of July 17.

The 41-year-old member of K-pop girl group 2NE1 showed up at the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS) in Geylang, where the league rounds for this year’s Singapore Schools Sports Council Basketball C Division National School Games were ongoing.

Lucky students from Swiss Cottage Secondary School and Nanyang Girls’ High School got a chance to chat and take photos with Park, who also tried her hand at shooting some hoops. While she missed on her first try, she successfully made the shot on her second attempt, to cheers from the teens.

One of them who took a group photo with Park was Beatris Chua, a Secondary One student from Swiss Cottage Secondary School.

The 13-year-old, who was about to play a league round when the Sout...