A Korean woman needed a driver’s license for her vegetable selling business, so she went to the driver’s license agency and took the required written test in order to start the process. Unfortunately she didn’t pass. So she took the test again. Still failed. 950 attempts later, Cha Sa-soon finally passed her driver’s test and is now able to take the driving portion of the test. One hopes she’ll have better luck with this round of the test.

Cha began taking the driver’s test in 2005 and has now spent the equivalent of $4,200 to take the test almost daily for the last four years. A passing score for the exam is a 60 out of a possible 100. Cha achieved that illusive 60 last week about 130 miles south of Seoul in South Korea.

Now that she’s passed the written portion of the exam, Cha will turn her sights to the driving portion of the test. For most, this portion of a driver’s exam is a bit more challenging making one hope that she’s been secretly practicing all of these years without her official license – otherwise the drivers of South Korea are in for a rather unpleasant shock.

If a woman takes more than four years to pass a basic driving exam in a country not known for its cautious driving habits, what can we expect of that woman behind the wheel?

There is, of course, the distinct possibility that it was a language or comprehension problem that kept Cha from passing the exam the previous 949 times. However, given the option to be on the road with the woman this blogger would most certainly opt out. The roads of South Korea might never be the same.