Woman fails drivers test 949 times, passes on 950th try

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Boogat: Jan 05, 2006

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...article1353257/

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A woman 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.

The aspiring South Korean driver spent more than 5 million won ($4,500) in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points needed to get behind the wheel for a driving test.

Cha Sa-soon, 68, finally passed the written exam with a score of 60 on Wednesday, said Choi Young-chul, a police official at the drivers' license agency in Jeonju, 200 kilometres south of Seoul.

Police said Ms. Cha took the test hundreds of times, but had no specific total. Local media said she took the test 950 times.

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

Repeated calls to Ms. Cha seeking comment went unanswered. She told the Korea Times newspaper she needed the license for her vegetable-selling business.

That is some serious determination right there. Now lets see how long it takes her to actually pass the practical drivers test.

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# ? Nov 22, 2009 00:28

Zhongchao84: Jul 06, 2006

Now let's see how many attempts it takes her to pass the driving portion, and god help her if there is a parallel parking requirement too.

I hope she doesn't get a license.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:12

BannedThriceSoFar: Aug 22, 2009; by Ozma

Korean vegetables sellers are cunts, with oppressive loud-speakers that keep me awake at 3am.

I, also, hope she doesn't get a license.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:14

Ak Gara: Jul 29, 2005; That's just the way he rolls.

She only needed a 60% to pass? I'm pretty sure I could have passed by guessing with in about the first 100 trys!

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:16

Yodzilla: Apr 29, 2005

BannedThriceSoFar posted:

Korean vegetables sellers are cunts, with oppressive loud-speakers that keep me awake at 3am.

Maybe if you bought some of their delicious, nutritious vegetables once in a while they'd leave you alone!

_{Eat your veggies you smelly goon}
/

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:18

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BannedThriceSoFar posted:

Korean vegetables sellers are cunts, with oppressive loud-speakers that keep me awake at 3am.

I, also, hope she doesn't get a license.

Wait, so does this woman sell vegetables outside your place? I fail to see the correlation here.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:18

Badmana: Jul 28, 2004

Just how many different questions can there be on the test? How the gently caress do you not remember the answers after, oh, the first 200 times?

Christ, I hope this woman doesn't get her license but then again there are drivers out there right now who cannot pass their written test and wouldn't know the difference between a yield sign and a stop sign.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:19

Matt Cruea: Jan 03, 2006; The Last Heterosexual

Ak Gara posted:

She only needed a 60% to pass? I'm pretty sure I could have passed by guessing with in about the first 100 trys!

Yeah, statistically she should've been able to at least figure out what she got wrong after awhile, unless she just ALWAYS guessed or Christmas Tree'd the thing.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:20

Kwosge: Dec 06, 2005; Lincoln-fish, the most powerful of all the Lincoln based animals.

Come on. You should be able to memorise the questions, look them up and get a passing grade by test 100.

Count down untill the thread where she kills someone while driving.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:21

Atoramos: Aug 31, 2003; Jim's now a Blind Cave Salamander!

I'm guessing she's illiterate or something, that's the only way this makes sense to me.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:21

Cluricaun: Jul 31, 2009; Bang.

There should be a limit of, I don't know maybe 50 times that you can take the test without passing before a lifetime ban on you even thinking about driving takes effect. Drivers tests are mostly common sense, things like

If you are approaching a rail road crossing and the lights begin to flash you should:

A. Speed up and try and jump the tracks
B. Slam on your brakes
C. Stop at the line indicated

If you can't figure that poo poo out after one or two tries than really, don't drive.

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This woman should get her own reality show. I want to see how the rest of her life works. Laundry, eating, paying bills. Would she end up stabbing herself in the face during dinner? Washing her potted plants instead of her shirts?

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:23

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005

I imagine that she was making some sort of ideological point. Protesting some thing by repeatedly putting it as the correct answer.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:25

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; This is my game. The bunt put me here, and I have to work every day to get better and keep bunting.

Ak Gara posted:

She only needed a 60% to pass? I'm pretty sure I could have passed by guessing with in about the first 100 trys!

If it's a 50-question test with 4 choices per question and you guess randomly on all of them, you've still got around a 94% chance of failing it.

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Owlofcreamcheese posted:

I imagine that she was making some sort of ideological point. Protesting some thing by repeatedly putting it as the correct answer.

And it only cost her $4500!

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:27

Lando: Sep 15, 2003

blurry! posted:

Wait, so does this woman sell vegetables outside your place? I fail to see the correlation here.

No, the cool thing to do in S. Korea is to have a small flat bed tuck, similar to a pickup truck, filled with vegetables or fish or some other lovely semi-fresh product, that in reality is weeks old; and drive through neighborhoods 24/7 with a loudspeaker announcing what is for sale. Its very loud and a tape or CD set on loopback.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:28

Wastrel_: Jun 03, 2004; Read it and weep.

That's admirable determination, but it might have been better for her business had she not tried for the licence.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:30

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; This is my game. The bunt put me here, and I have to work every day to get better and keep bunting.

Lando posted:

No, the cool thing to do in S. Korea is to have a small flat bed tuck, similar to a pickup truck, filled with vegetables or fish or some other lovely semi-fresh product, that in reality is weeks old; and drive through neighborhoods 24/7 with a loudspeaker announcing what is for sale. Its very loud and a tape or CD set on loopback.

Isn't that how the police get people out of buildings during standoffs?

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Lando posted:

No, the cool thing to do in S. Korea is to have a small flat bed tuck, similar to a pickup truck, filled with vegetables or fish or some other lovely semi-fresh product, that in reality is weeks old; and drive through neighborhoods 24/7 with a loudspeaker announcing what is for sale. Its very loud and a tape or CD set on loopback.

Yeah okay that's great what does it have to do with this Korean woman?

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:32

theflyingexecutive: Apr 22, 2007; The Barack Obama Dildo Award Monetary value? $-0.000001

Luigi Thirty posted:

If it's a 50-question test with 4 choices per question and you guess randomly on all of them, you've still got around a 94% chance of failing it.

Well then you end up passing in much less than 100 tries.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:33

Boogat: Jan 05, 2006

I don't even understand why she feels as though she needs a license this bad? She has presumably gone the past 50+ years without driving, and now why does she want to drive? What drove her to attempt this test 950 times and waste $4500. I'm sure she could find a driver for her vegetable business no problem...

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:34

Geolicious: Oct 21, 2003; Have a look at this beautiful motherfucking planet. It was last seen being awesome in the universe where it is right now being awesome as usual.

This is just enforcing (proving?) the stereotype of lovely asian women drivers.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:36

Slackerish: Jan 01, 2007; If you only knew the plans they had for us

Looks like Spongebob Squarepants no longer has an excuse.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:39

Wingnut Ninja: Jan 11, 2003; "I just want to ignite the world with the fire of change..."

Luigi Thirty posted:

If it's a 50-question test with 4 choices per question and you guess randomly on all of them, you've still got around a 94% chance of failing it.

Which gives you a 99.79% chance of passing it within 100 tries.

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I hear Koreans sell vegetables. Goons, please C/D for me.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:41

Noni: Jul 08, 2003; Can't post for 459 hours!

Geolicious posted:

This is just enforcing (proving?) the stereotype of lovely asian women drivers.

Yes. This one woman represents over a billion people accurately.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:41

Bean_: Oct 06, 2006; by Ozma

Three things:
1-Old
2-Asian
3-Woman

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Oh, and they can't drive! I heard that somewhere. I need you goons. Please tell me? Vegetables bad drives? Asians?

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:44

traveling midget: Dec 28, 2006; i like u crazy

blurry! posted:

Yeah okay that's great what does it have to do with this Korean woman?

The OP posted:

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

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:45

Cheeseball IV: Jan 10, 2007; There is no Toph, there is only Melon Lord!

Boogat posted:

What drove her to attempt this test 950 times and waste $4500.

Obviously not her.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:45

Corridor: Oct 19, 2006

Atoramos posted:

I'm guessing she's illiterate or something, that's the only way this makes sense to me.

Yeah, this is the only way I can make this work in my head. She just randomly picked through the multiple choice questions and left any written portion blank, and therefore needed to get most if not all of the multiple choices right. It's still retarded though, you'd think she'd learn some basic literacy in that time, or get someone to interpret or something.

I remember thinking that my ex failing his practical driving test 8 times was impressive.

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traveling midget posted:

Ah I missed that line. Welp,

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olylifter: Sep 13, 2007

Lando posted:

No, the cool thing to do in S. Korea is to have a small flat bed tuck, similar to a pickup truck, filled with vegetables or fish or some other lovely semi-fresh product, that in reality is weeks old; and drive through neighborhoods 24/7 with a loudspeaker announcing what is for sale. Its very loud and a tape or CD set on loopback.

The ones in my town used to have tiers of products with each cheaper level containing a higher percentage of rotted stuff underneath the top layer of decent produce.

It took me a good month to discern what the gently caress the noise was outside of my apartment at 5 in the morning as I didn't speak Korean or get out of bed at 5 in the morning for anything.

The best for me though were the old ladies (Ajumas) who used to crouch next to the road selling shoots and leeches that they'd picked from the various canals throughout town. I still regret not catching one of them in frame with a passing BMW 7-Series at some point.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:49

AKA Pseudonym: May 16, 2004; A dashing and sophisticated young man

Maybe they're all essay questions

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:50

Overwined: Sep 22, 2008

How dare you call Korean Vegetable Sellers Korean Vegetable Sellers. That's Racist!

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:51

Xequecal: Jun 14, 2005

Luigi Thirty posted:

If it's a 50-question test with 4 choices per question and you guess randomly on all of them, you've still got around a 94% chance of failing it.

The odds of getting a 60% or higher (30 correct) on a 50-question test with four choices per question by random guessing are 1 in 6,089,058. A lot worse than this.

The chance of getting a 60% or higher (60 correct) on a 100-question test with four choices per question by random guessing are 0.000000000000132683.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:55

D is That Guy: Dec 24, 2004; Not me. I'm gonna be an Adrienne Barbeaubot.

Man this reminds me of the Randy Moss school of driving.

Red light means go.
Yellow light means go.
Green light means go.
Walk? You'd better run. I don't have time to wait for your rear end all day!
Speed Limit? No speed limit.
One Way? Any Way.
Traffic Cop? Speed bump.
Speed bump? Ramp.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 15:57

ookuwagata: Aug 26, 2007; I love you this much!

She pretty obviously was guessing, and sort of won the lottery. Except in this lottery, the drivers on the road lose.

It's possible that she is illiterate, but I though Hangul also has colorful synonyms for it like, "children's writing" and "writing you can learn in a morning".

It's probably safer (and would have been cheaper, looking at the money spent on testing fees) for her to just hire a goddamn driver.

# ? Nov 06, 2009 16:03

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ookuwagata posted:

She pretty obviously was guessing, and sort of won the lottery. Except in this lottery, the drivers on the road lose.

It's possible that she is illiterate, but I though Hangul also has colorful synonyms for it like, "children's writing" and "writing you can learn in a morning".

It's probably safer (and would have been cheaper, looking at the money spent on testing fees) for her to just hire a goddamn driver.

Could be she is a proficient driver just not aware of the specifics of the law. If I asked you how many meters from a stop light you can change lanes legally, would you know?

# ? Nov 06, 2009 16:05

The Corporate: Jul 07, 2009; Ask me if the holocaust really happened!

Adrenochrome posted:

Could be she is a proficient driver just not aware of the specifics of the law. If I asked you how many meters from a stop light you can change lanes legally, would you know?

You'd have to be missing more than just the specifics to fail that many times.

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