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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject: Citizens make big money reporting violations |
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http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110715000856
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Currently there are 336 different infractions that citizens can report to both government agencies and corporations, offering up to 3 billion won.
Programs vary from reporting dropped cigarette butts and illegal trash disposal to unlicensed clinical practitioners and prostitution.
The over 7,000 graduates of Moon�s school cover the entire spectrum, from a couple who report litterers at highway rest stops, to people who stake out hospitals and catch perpetrators of health insurance fraud. |
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World Traveler
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| Kim did not even bat an eyelid during her interview with The Korea Herald inside the waiting room, adding that she makes over 10 million won ($9,400) a month. |
I wonder if she turned in any E2s for teaching private English lessons. Anyone know how much the snitch reward for that is? |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I know that a recruiter who ripped me off avoids paying tax. Can I report them? |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Are you on an E2? I'm pretty such you are ineligible for any income aside from that given to you by your sponsoring employer. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, guys. E2s can get money for reporting crimes? I'm guessing no. BTW, Julius, how do you know the recruiter avoids paying tax? (Is that common?) And how did he rip you off? |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Kim did not even bat an eyelid during her interview with The Korea Herald inside the waiting room, adding that she makes over 10 million won ($9,400) a month. |
I wonder if she turned in any E2s for teaching private English lessons. Anyone know how much the snitch reward for that is? |
OK, I found out the answer. Citizens get 20% of the fine amount. The fine for an E2 giving private lessons is 5,000,000 won, so the reward money for turning someone in is 1,000,000 won. That's a lot of money in a country where the per capita GDP is $20,000 a year. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Kim did not even bat an eyelid during her interview with The Korea Herald inside the waiting room, adding that she makes over 10 million won ($9,400) a month. |
I wonder if she turned in any E2s for teaching private English lessons. Anyone know how much the snitch reward for that is? |
OK, I found out the answer. Citizens get 20% of the fine amount. The fine for an E2 giving private lessons is 5,000,000 won, so the reward money for turning someone in is 1,000,000 won. That's a lot of money in a country where the per capita GDP is $20,000 a year. |
That's a lot of money for a lot of people. I'd sellout someone that I'm not close too for a $1000. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| A perfect example of Foucault's, via Bentham's, panopticon in full effect. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| A perfect example of Foucault's, via Bentham's, panopticon in full effect. |
I majored in philosophy and I don't understand that; why post something without an explanation that few, if any, will understand? |
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itistime
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
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snitches get stitches.
Seriously, if you're going to 'infract', don't get caught. |
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AlastairKirby
Joined: 29 Aug 2011
Location: UK
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Wow.
I read Molly's post and thought she was talking about a Decepticon.
"RAAR, I AM PANOPTICON. I WILL DESTROY YOU!"
"Not today Panopticon!"
"NO! HIPPOPOPTIMUS PRIME!"
BANG! CRASH! KERSPLAT! GINYARG!
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"Remember Earth Children. Nobody likes a snitch. Now you know."
"And knowing is half the battle." |
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dharma bum
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
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Another Wikipedia article with insight into what Molly Bloom's talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
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| Foucault also compares modern society with Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon" design for prisons (which was unrealized in its original form, but nonetheless influential): in the Panopticon, a single guard can watch over many prisoners while the guard remains unseen. Ancient prisons have been replaced by clear and visible ones, but Foucault cautions that "visibility is a trap." It is through this visibility, Foucault writes, that modern society exercises its controlling systems of power and knowledge (terms Foucault believed to be so fundamentally connected that he often combined them in a single hyphenated concept, "power-knowledge"). Increasing visibility leads to power located on an increasingly individualized level, shown by the possibility for institutions to track individuals throughout their lives. Foucault suggests that a "carceral continuum" runs through modern society, from the maximum security prison, through secure accommodation, probation, social workers, police, and teachers, to our everyday working and domestic lives. All are connected by the (witting or unwitting) supervision (surveillance, application of norms of acceptable behaviour) of some humans by others. |
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