Former NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal Goes Back to High School for Korean Variety Show
Former NBA player Shaquille O'neal went back to high school as he starred a variety show in South Korea wherein famous personalities are being asked to be high school students again for a few days.
According to an article posted Wednesday on Uproxx, the show's description says (translated from Korean to English), "On this program, the starring celebrities will be attending one high school in Seoul from Monday to Friday, in which they will have to behave like any regular student, make friends and adapt to school life."
Aside from that, the show's production staff "promised to film the show so as to no other students are distracted from their studies and so that the school does not receive any unwanted attention."
For its latest episode, the program's preview featured the 43-year-old NBA star on his school uniform as he became a high school student once more at Seo Incheon High School.
A part of the video's description says, "Dinosaur Center Shaquille O'neal came to school!" As translated by Fox Sports on Wednesday.
Students from Incheon were in awe upon seeing the 7-foot-1 player entering the school premises while carrying his bag. Although the player does not speak Korean, Shaq interacted with the young men and gave them fist bumps.
'Off to School,' also known as 'I'm Going to School,' was released on July 12, 2014 and has a total of 54 episodes as of July 28, 2015.
The variety show has featured a number of celebrities since it started - with most of them are Koreans.
An episode runs for about 70 minutes and airs on JTBC. However, the show has yet to release the date for Shaq's episode.