I'VE GOT SEOUL

Living in Los Angeles, you become accustomed to the constant presence of film shoots and crews, as well as celebrity sightings in everyday settings (hell, my kid went to preschool with John C. Reilly's kid and my ex-wife's boyfriend was Beck)...

You just get used to the film/entertainment world.

Now, downtown Los Angeles has doubled for just about every other city in the world, both in exteriors and interiors -in one week, our Biltmore Hotel became a middle eastern disco on 'Alias' and the White House on ' The West Wing'- and the streets are constantly used- as Detroit in Robocop, for instance - and passing through these outdoor 'sets' can be amusing...

On my way to catch my train from downtown LA to work, I found that the first block of Wilshire Blvd. had been transformed into some Korean city, complete with all street signs and business fronts, even the newspaper kiosks and the homeless (all Korean actors) and, of course, the billboards!

A previously non-existent food store had all sorts of cool Korean treats not for sale, much to the chagrin of a couple of clueless office drones trying to get into the store...

The only English signs that had not been changed were for a golf store (!) and an ad featuring...MC Hammer, promoting some kind of energy drink...

MC Hammer?

Maybe it was a retro Korean movie .