Seoul, Korea

Just over those mountains lies North Korea.

A beautiful day in Seoul! And a great day to shoot GVs (General Views). Our purpose today was to get some shots of G20 preparations, police, G20 banners, etc. It wasn't too hard, because they are all over the place. Everyone here is so polite, even the police. Sometimes it is not easy to film police because it can be illegal in some countries. Here, they excuse themselves for stepping into your shot! When they know they are being filmed, they just go about their business and don't bother me at all. In fact, everyone is like that. It makes my job very easy.

If only all police were so nice!

In the evening, we had an interview with a senior inspector of the G20 Security Planning Team. We were expecting an older man and a rather dry interview. We were waiting in a big room for the senior inspector to arrive and in comes a young, attractive woman, all smiles. She was everything we didn't expect. Friendly, funny and Joo-Young Kim spoke English very well. She opted to do the interview in Korean because she was worried about making any mistakes. I couldn't understand what she was saying, but she came across as very confident and competent.

View from the roof of my hotel.