The collection, premiering on February 5, was filmed at Bell English Faculties’s Cambridge premisis in August 2025, which hosted Dong-Il Sung, Kwang-Kyu Kim, Ki-Jun Um, Hyuk Jang, and Seung-Hwan Shin for 2 weeks in August 2024.
This system, Shala Shala, follows the actors’ genuine experiences of studying English alongside different college students, collaborating in actions, and staying with host households and in Bell Cambridge’s on-campus residences.
“These are male, middle-aged actors who’re well-known in South Korea, however who have gotten to a sure level of their profession and perhaps they need to attempt extra roles in English or perhaps they need to journey personally with their households,” Rebecca Stead, head of promoting at Bell Instructional Providers informed The PIE Information.
“So, the premise of the present was that it’s by no means too late to late to study English,” Stead added.
To make it as genuine as potential, 50 hidden cameras had been arrange across the college to seize the actors’ true experiences taking lessons with Bell’s summer season learners.
Whereas Stead maintained that the actors had been “nice college students”, the program’s trailer reveals a considerably bumpy path to language studying success.
“It was a giant operation and actually fascinating for us employees to see how a TV program is made, and the opposite college students had been actually excited to have the actors round,” she added.
The premise of the present was that it’s by no means too late to late to study English
Rebecca Stead, Bell English
With seven faculties for grownup college students and younger learners throughout the UK, Bell’s Cambridge establishment is its flagship location providing year-round language programs to learners of all ages.
“We’ve received these lovely gardens and conventional buildings, and it’s in Cambridge, which is such a pretty vacation spot. It’s very a lot that quintessential picture of what lots of people from different nations think about the UK to be like,” Stead famous.
“Not solely are we showcasing Bell however we’re additionally showcasing the UK and what a precious expertise it’s to review and journey right here, so hopefully it will likely be a optimistic factor for the trade as an entire.”
This system comes at a time of slowing restoration for the UK’s ELT sector, with ranges prone to be a “new regular” for the sector, in keeping with a current report by English UK.
This system can be airing on YouTube in addition to the South Korean tv community JTBC on February 5, 2025.
