By Elias Molina and Yoon Sojung
Video = Youtube account of Seoul City

The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Jan. 14 released a promotional video titled "What makes Seoul a safe city in the post-COVID-19 era?"

The video features Dennis Hong, a world-renowned robotics professor from the University of California-Los Angeles who is also an honorary ambassador of Seoul.

In the video, Hong plays police officer, firefighter and quarantine officer along with his robots including the soccer playing DARwIn-OP, BALLU with balloons on its feet, the six-legged SiLVIA, an autonomous delivery robot and one that acts as a prosthetic hand.

The video comes in English-, Chinese-, Japanese-, Spanish-, German-, French-, Vietnamese-, Arabic-, Russian- and Portuguese-language versions, and the city has released them on its Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts.

The video comes in versions lasting 30 seconds, one minute and three minutes 15 seconds.

This clip will be used as footage to promote the city when it hosts international events and overseas personnel exchanges as well as when it conducts marketing projects abroad.

Kim Dong-kyung, director of the municipal government's City Branding Division, said, "The video underlines an image of Seoul as a safe city that preemptively responds to COVID-19."

"It also conveys the message of a future-oriented global city preparing for the post-COVID-19 and new normal eras."

The city's YouTube channel in Korean: https://www.youtube.com/seoullive
The city's YouTube channel in English: https://www.youtube.com/seoulcityofficial

eliasmolina@korea.kr