Saturday, February 15All That Matters

Korean woman catastrophically fails driver’s test

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  • I earned my Korean license about 12 years ago. It is a long process.

    1. You watch a video that’s about an hour.

    2. You take a computerized test that’s similar to what you’d take in the US, but it has some weird questions. I took it in English so it could be poor translations, but I know Koreans who said they were accurate. There was a question about how to properly use the air conditioner – turn it on full blast right away, let the car warm up first, set it low then raise it, and something else equally irrelevant to actually driving.

    3. You then do the medical exam which in my case was telling them I was healthy, the guy checking the boxes, and a quick eye exam.

    4. You then have to schedule a driving test ON A COURSE where you drive straight, hit the brakes and emergency flashers when a computer tells you, then turn and stop.

    5. You then schedule an on road test, the final step. As I had driven for decades in the US, I wasn’t concerned. I was chastised for shoulder checking (eyes on the road at all times!), for slowing down to change lanes instead of cutting off a bus, and I fishtailed through an intersection as the light went red because the instructor yelled at me to GO GO GO!!! I still passed the test with a 100%.

    So this woman does not surprise me although I doubt this was a driver’s test as much as driving school practice. The DLA in Korea has maps of where they drive and they are all in bigger, more populated areas (even locations in on the country are going to be bigger than this). This is most likely a private driving school.

  • There’s always the funny stories that get passed around, I’m sure many are exaggerated – this one actually has proof. The only silly story I heard was a guy I knew failed because he lit a cigarette during his test, this is rural England, he’d been driving for years illegally at that point and said he was so relaxed he just forgot he wasn’t supposed to do that.

  • When I was doing my driving test another kid at the driving centre was in the carpark with his examiner ready to do his practical after the eye test. He put it in reverse and rammed the car behind instead of easily driving forward into empty space. Screaming and crying that he wasn’t ready apparently didn’t help.

    My examiner just looked at me as we walked to the car and all I could say was that I’d have to think of something else a bit more creative which he found funny. relaxed me anyway so I passed although I had to return my licence a few weeks later when they found out my rare eye disorder and that I had cheated on the eye test and shouldn’t be driving anyway. I just wanted to see if I could do it.

  • This is not a driver’s test. This is a husband (or a boyfriend) teaching the woman driver how to drive, as noted from the man using informal language and the woman driver asking him at the end “honey (only used to refer to spouse/significant other) are you ok?”

  • this was done so quickly that it’s actually impressive. you have to precisely calculate where to place ur wheels and when to accelerate in order to have the car flip over like that

  • I am curious how it is in other countries, but in Romania, the driving instructor has his own set of pedals- brake and clutch. Even the final exam when you sit with the police officer on your right, he has the pedals so something like that would be almost imposible.

    Do other countries have a similar approach or do you start on a regular car and the instructor has just fate to protect him? 😀

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