The collection, premiering on February 5, was filmed at Bell English Colleges’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, participating 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 possibly they wish to attempt extra roles in English or possibly they wish to journey personally with their households,” Rebecca Stead, head of selling at Bell Instructional Companies informed The PIE Information.
“So, the premise of the present was that it’s by no means too late to late to be taught English,” Stead added.
To make it as genuine as doable, 50 hidden cameras had been arrange across the college to seize the actors’ true experiences taking courses with Bell’s summer time 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 an enormous operation and actually attention-grabbing 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 be taught English
Rebecca Stead, Bell English
With seven colleges 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 bought these lovely gardens and conventional buildings, and it’s in Cambridge, which is such a horny vacation spot. It’s very a lot that quintessential picture of what lots of people from different international locations 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 worthwhile expertise it’s to review and journey right here, so hopefully will probably 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 more likely to be a “new regular” for the sector, in line with a latest report by English UK.
This system might be airing on YouTube in addition to the South Korean tv community JTBC on February 5, 2025.
