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South Korean Woman Passes Drivers Test after 960th Try
2010-05-07
Ha! Let nobody mock me on this subject ever again! It only took me five tries the first time... and two when we moved back from Brussels because my American license had expired. But that's because in Cincinnati they don't like people who drive like Belgians -- or like Belgians were in the vicinity.
A South Korean woman who earned a driver's license after 960 tries is ready to buy a car and get behind the wheel. Yonhap news agency reported Thursday that 69-year-old Cha Sa-soon passed the driving part of the test last month on her 10th try. South Korea requires a written test first, and Cha took it nearly daily since April 2005 before passing last year.
Oh. But I'm still ahead on points. I always got the written part on the first try.
Yonhap quoted her as saying she wanted to buy a small secondhand car to visit her son and daughter and for her business selling vegetables.

Repeated calls seeking comment from her went unanswered.

Officials at the drivers' license agency in Jeonju, 130 miles (210 kilometers) south of Seoul, were not available for comment.
They probably miss her, now that she's not coming back.
Posted by:Beavis

#4  Please elaborate. How do Belgians drive?

It's like this, Mike. In Brussels, at least -- and I was being flip, I can't actually speak to how they drive beyond the Brussels-Antwerp area whose roads I traversed -- as far as I could tell I was the only unimportant person in all of the region. There's NATO, SEATO (whatever that is), the EU, national embassies to all of the above, NGO headquarters, etc and so forth. And they were all too important to learn the Belgian rules of the road. Plus Belgium has queer little rules, like the car turning from the side street to the main road has the right of way... and the city is so dirty that one can't read the street signs posted high on the walls of the buildings at each corner.

I lived on a tertiary side street in the village of Overijse outside of Brussels, and there'd be a major crash at the corner at least once a month, because neither driver would give way to the other making the turn. I was warned when I moved there to expect to total my car at least once a year -- I made it an extra week, the week we were transferred home, but even so there was only $40 of value in what was left of the vehicle.

So I learnt to check again before turning from parking lot to street, and from side street to main street, just in case. We don't do that in Cincinnati.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-05-07 12:48  

#3  ...in Cincinnati they don't like people who drive like Belgians -- or like Belgians were in the vicinity.

Please elaborate. How do Belgians drive?
Posted by: Mike   2010-05-07 09:55  

#2  Most folks give up after 5 or 6 hundred tries. Not her, boy...
Posted by: mojo   2010-05-07 03:13  

#1  Let's see, 30 questions with four answers each, need 80% to pass, how many tries until 50% probability of passing test, factorial, power of four, carry the two . . . yep, 960 tries!

Proof that even the blind squirrel finds a nut from time to time!

It would have been easier to learn how to read, stubborn grandma! :-)

But hey, I can sympathize with her. Kindergarten was about the hardest four years of my life, too.
Posted by: gorb   2010-05-07 00:57  

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