Help wanted: citizen spies.

PositionSouth Korea - Brief article

Bounties are nothing new in South Korea: For decades, the government has offered rewards for turning in spies from North Korea, South Korea's nuclear-armed neighbor which it fought in the Korean War, from 1950 to 1953. Now a variation of the job is attracting takers: spying on fellow South Koreans. "Paparazzi," as they're sarcastically known, secretly videotape people committing petty offenses, from running a red light and cutting in line to dumping waste into a river; some spies take home as much as $85,000 a year from government agencies that pay for the incriminating images...

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