Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ladies Start Your Engines!

In April of 2005, 69-year-old, Cha Sa-soon of Jeonju, South Korea, decided to get her driver's license. Now five years and 960 tries later she has it.

After failing the driving test 959 times, persistence finally paid off for Cha Sa-soon who plans to “buy a small secondhand car to visit her son and daughter, and for her business selling vegetables” now that she has passed the test.

Sa-soon was charged a small fee each time she took the test, the total fees add up to approximately $16,500 US dollars. But as a consolation prize she won her place in history setting the world’s record for the most attempts to pass a driving test. Continue reading

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