
Nichkhun was born in
Rancho Cucamonga, California to
Thai family. Nichkhun has one older brother Nichan, and two younger sisters, Nichthima and Nachjaree. 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 year and a half and moved back to the United States to finish his schooling at
Los Osos High School in
Rancho Cucamonga, California. After high school, he was a coach at
Rosemead High School for their badminton team. There, he was scouted by
Park Jin-young, a K-pop singer and the producer of JYP Entertainment, at the Los Angeles Korean Music Festival.

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-younginformed him that he was required to learn
Mandarin Chinese and
Korean to also work out regularly and learn how to dance and to sing. 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 4-member ballad group
2PM under
JYP Entertainment.
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