According to a story by AP, a 68-year-old woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver’s license almost daily since 2005 finally got a passing grade on her 950th try.
Cha Sa-soon persevered and passed, not with flying colors, but squeaked by with the minimum score 60 out of 100 points at a drivers’ license agency in Jeonju, 130 miles (210 kilometers) south of Seoul. Since her first attempt back in 2005, Cha has shelled out more than 5 million won ($4,200) for application fees.
Now she must pass a driving test before getting her license. Let’s hope she doesn’t have to take the driving test as many times to get behind the wheel of a large Korean automobile. You got to hand it to the woman for her determination to keep on taking the test until she passed.
According to local media she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.
I was about to say (until I read that she hadn’t taken the road test) that she might have been the woman driver in a Hyundai Sonata who cut across three lanes of traffic on a busy street in Seongnam earlier this evening to make a right turn (she was in the far left lane) and turned right in front of the city bus I was on. The bus driver was forced to slam on the brakes and swerve into another lane to avoid hitting this Sonata—which just stopped in the middle of the road.
As such, let’s hope she does better on the road test. Korea’s highways and city streets can do with one less bad driver.
