Local TV personalities Sam Hammington of “Gag Concert” and “Real Men”; Brad Moore of Busker Busker; Abigail Alderete of “Global Talk Show;” and Sam Ochiri of “Gag Concert” are starring in a new tvN program, “Island Village Teacher.”

The new show is the country’s first reality program with an all-foreign cast and the first to have a non-Korean host. The weekly show has the four TV celebrities acting as English teachers, taking them to various destinations around Korea. For the first episode, the cast were English teachers at an elementary school on the remote island of Hodo, off the coast of Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province. The cast members stayed on the island for five days, where they also lived as guests in the home of a local family.

The pilot episode of “Island Village Teacher” aired in September and the first episode in the series aired Tuesday. The show will continue to air on tvN every Tuesday night.

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)