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"Step out of the car, please" > wrote in
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> http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor...randmother-Cha
> -Sa-Soon-68-Passes-Driving-Test-On-950th-Attempt/Article/20091111544057
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> 950th Time Is The Charm For Learner Driver
> 10:06am UK, Friday November 06, 2009
>
> Jo Couzens, Sky News Online
>
> A woman in South Korea has finally passed her driving test after
> hundreds of attempts - 950 to be exact.
>
> Cha Sa-soon has taken the written exam on a near-daily basis since
> April 2005.
>
> The test requires 60% to pass but Mrs Cha has repeatedly scored
> between 30% and 50%.
>
> The 68-year-old grandmother forks out 6,000 won (£2.80) in application
> fees every time she takes the test.
>
> After 950 tries, that amounts to more than five million won (£2,660).
>
> Mrs Cha has been determined to obtain her licence so that she can get
> a car to make her door-to-door business a little easier.
>
> At the moment she delivers food and household items to her customers
> in a handcart.
>
> But now she has finally passed the written exam with a score of 60,
> according to police official Choi Young-chul.
>
> However, Mrs Cha will not be buying a new motor just yet - she still
> needs to pass the driving part of the exam before she gets her
> licence.
>
> The grandmother has become a familiar figure at the drivers' license
> agency in Jeonju, 130 miles south of Seoul.
>
> In February this year, after Mrs Cha had failed her 771st attempt,
> traffic police officer Jung-seok said: "I feel sorry every time I see
> Cha fail.
>
> "When she passes, I'll make a commemorative tablet myself and give it
> to her."
>
>

If they'd offered her a dogburger, she'd have passed first time.