Cha Sa-soon, a 69-year-old woman who lives by herself in South Korea, obtained her driver’s license last year—on the 950th try.
Related Facts: She’s become a national celebrity in South Korea. Last month, the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group gave her a new car, and she’s appeared in their commercials. It was the written test that she failed 949 times. She passed the two skill and road tests after failing each four times, for a total of 960 tests.
[Source: "At First She Didn’t Succeed, but She Tried and Tried Again (960 Times)," New York Times. Image credit: STRINGER/KOREA/Reuters/Corbis. See previous Numbers of the Day here.]
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…I’m not gonna say it…
posted by brian on 9-4-2010 at 11:27 am
Does this reflect how poor a driver she is, or does this show to how much higher a level the Koreans hold their prospective drivers?
I know here in USA the states don’t quite give out driver’s licenses for $10.00 and three boxtops, but the way a lot of people drive it sure seems like that.
-”BB”-
posted by Bicycle Bill on 9-4-2010 at 2:42 pm
According to the article, she’s functionally illiterate.
posted by Zach on 9-4-2010 at 7:11 pm
They should have given her a reading primer and a bicycle!
posted by Tim S. on 9-5-2010 at 3:46 am