Good for her. she should be able to pass her driving test by 2018.

So. Sounds like me and my driver's lic.

FTFA:

A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time.


Stereotypes exist for a reason, folks.

/Even my Korean roommate in college made fun of female Asian drivers.

Now she's free to drive while shucking corn, eating kim-chee and texting on the cell-y.

And she still only, just passed the test. I am worried about everyone else one the road over there.

Was she filling in bubbles at random? Even then 950 tries seems like a lot.

How could she possibly fail that many times? Either she's stubbornly filling in the wrong answers, or the laws of probability have forsaken Korea.

And why was she allowed to continue taking it?

Now she must pass a driving test before getting her license, Choi said.

Whew! Safe for a few more years, at least.

Yes, I know she's clear across the Pacific Ocean from me. But someone this incompetent is bound to find some way to cut me off. She'll probably get lost and somehow end up over here.

She had dedication. I'll give her that. But after, I dunno, say the 250th, 475th try, the 666th try...did it ever dawn on her that driving a cab might not be her destiny in life?

She probably kept failing because the test was written in a foreign language.

I helped a friend get her learner's permit recently, and for the theory test she pretty much learnt the questioned asked by doing the online practice tests over and over the night before. How would you not know *all* the questioned asked after even just a few goes at the test?

GoSurfing: She had dedication. I'll give her that. But after, I dunno, say the 250th, 475th try, the 666th try...did it ever dawn on her that driving a cab might not be her destiny in life?

RTFA.

She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

GoSurfing: She had dedication. I'll give her that. But after, I dunno, say the 250th, 475th try, the 666th try...did it ever dawn on her that driving a cab might not be her destiny in life?

Apparently she wasn't all that good in the kitchen.

/ducks

She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

Maybe she should just wok instead.

eraser8: She probably kept failing because the test was written in a foreign language she's an Asian woman.

probably left handed too

She should *so* be a guest host for Cash Cab someday...

Just had to jump in on the Asian Women stereotype thread early.

True story: I was sitting with a friend outside a Starbucks and a Korean woman came out and got in her car parked along the curb. She had about 20 feet of open space in back of her before the next car. I made a joke to my friend, "Look, she's going to back into that car." And then I'll be damned if she didn't start up and back up 20 feet in a straight line and hit the damn thing.

You'd think your average realistic person would've given up after a reasonable number of attempts, like maybe 500.
Oh, and good luck on your test! Bets on how many attempts that'll be? Although my dollar would say she croaks it before getting her license.

phlegmmo: She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

Maybe she should just wok instead.

How's she supposed to get any wok done without transportation?

eraser8: She probably kept failing because the test was written in a foreign language.

I think *I* could has passed it in fewer than 950 tries if it was in Korean through trial and error. And I don't speak a word of Korean.

The sick part is NYC cabbies are actually good drivers and decent people relative to cab drivers in other cities.

Asian women have lateral urogenital openings.

heypete: GoSurfing: She had dedication. I'll give her that. But after, I dunno, say the 250th, 475th try, the 666th try...did it ever dawn on her that driving a cab might not be her destiny in life?

RTFA.

She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

WIth the amount of time that she spent taking the test (950 times), she could have farking worked instead and PAID someone to cart around her vegetables.