North Korean women are hand-picked for their looks for traffic cop job

North Korean women are hand-picked for their looks for traffic cop job Who wants to be a model when you can direct traffic instead? How North Korea's most attractive women get hand-picked for ‘prestigious’ communist job These women work as traffic police in North Korea - a job that appears to be reserved only for the most beautiful. Believed to be hand-picked for their looks, Pyongyang's female traffic police are a familiar sight at intersections around the capital, where traffic volumes have noticeably increased in recent years. To land the prestigious job of being a traffic officer in the country, it helps to be tall, beautiful and female. Traffic girls are perhaps the most iconic symbols of the capital though they can also be found in other cities throughout North Korea. As well as directing vehicles through Pyongyang, the traffic girls customarily give a crisp salute to passing military and government officials. The women have developed something of a cult following, and even have a website dedicated to them, which features a 'Pyongyang Traffic Girl Of The Month'.