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    950th Time's The Charm

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    Image of thesciencegirl thesciencegirl
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    My first thought is: Does she have a literacy issue? #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of yinyang yinyang
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    This makes me feel better about taking 3 tries to pass my road test when I was 16. But seriously, go her! I wish I had that kind of persistence! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    A woman, an old person, and an Asian, all rolled into one person who took forever to pass a driving test?

    Assholes are going to have a field day with this one. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of bluetrain84 bluetrain84
    11/06/09

    @morninggloria: I know, I saw the title alone and thought, uh oh... #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of hello.kitty hello.kitty
    11/06/09

    @morninggloria: Like my 17 year old son. He barks out all sorts of epithets when he's driving. Ugh. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of lilyHaze lilyHaze
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    To be fair, the driver's license exams are extremely difficult in South Korea. The written exam has 100 or so questions and you have to get most of them right in order to pass. The practical (driving) exam is also difficult and definitely requires more than the average US exam. At least that's what my parents (who immigrated a long time ago) and friends have said.

    It depends on the state, but I think US exams should more more difficult as a whole.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/06/09

    @lilyHaze: You have to get 60/100 right according to the article. Still, I would think that after the first 500 or so tries you'd take a week off and really cram for the test. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    I wonder what the problem is - does she have trouble reading the questions? Does she not know the vocabulary used? Are the issuing a new test every time that has questions made of nonsense? It seems like after you've seen the test a certain number of times, you can remember the answers. Maybe they never told her which ones were right and which were wrong?

    I want to be happy for her, but I have so many questions! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of linnyt is a walking cliché linnyt is a walking cliché
    11/06/09

    @boxspelunker: I know! I was wondering if she has a learning disability or gets severe test-taking anxiety. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of siboney siboney
    11/06/09

    @boxspelunker: The driving test is really hard in South Korea, much more than the ones in the U.S. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    11/06/09

    @siboney: Is this in any way normal, though? Do most people need to take it hundreds of times? It's the sheer number that really blows me away. But hey! She never gave up, so that is a good thing.

    @linnyt is a walking cliche: Test-taking anxiety would really do that to a person, I suppose! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    The law of averages says she should have passed before now just on guesswork alone. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of cinematheques cinematheques
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    just like Spongebob.... #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    one of her names is "soon"?
    the irony #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of FurrierAndIves FurrierAndIves
    11/06/09

    @Ailatan: Heh! Not soon enough! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    You know, something about this seems fishy. So, she's been applying since 2005? That's ~4 years, so 208 weeks. 950 tries/208 weeks = 4.6 tries per week. So she's more or less been taking this stupid written exam every single weekday (or so) for four years? I'm sorry, just don't buy it. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    11/06/09

    @mbprice: Ah. And it says right in the article "nearly-daily attempts." That'll teach me to rtfa. Oops.

    Still, wtf? #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    11/06/09

    @mbprice: Maybe it become part of her routine. You know, wake up, shower, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, take your driver's test, go to work... #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    11/06/09

    @mbprice: Yeah, I have a lot of questions. Is the test impossibly hard? Is she able to read? #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of mama_t mama_t
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    Okay, no.

    Sincerely, Insurance Companies of South Korea. All of them. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/06/09

    @mama_t: Exactly. I would not want to share the road with her. Nobody is safe!
    #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of artyfarty artyfarty
    11/06/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: I've been on the road in Seoul and it was the most insane and intense experience. No one really cares that there are a million cars and people all trying to squeeze into the same traffic lane, they just all go at once. I was fearing for my life with every taxi ride. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/06/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Maybe it is a literacy issue. She may read enough to be able to read street signs, but not enough to take the written exam. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/06/09

    @Lymed: Good point, and I hope you are right, especially after reading about @artyfarty's experience! #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    11/06/09

    @artyfarty: I don't want to go to there (at least, not on the roads!) #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of lolabee lolabee
    11/06/09

    In reply to 950th Time's The Charm
    if at first you don't succeed, try 950 more times or take the bus. #womanpassesdriversteston950thtry
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    10/27/09

    In reply to Seoul To Soul
    I wonder if any Asian women are as enamored of white babies as I am of Asian ones? See, I'm white, and I always think that kids of other races are automatically cuter than white kids. I know that this qualifies as "othering," and I would never do or say anything in real life to indicate that I'm thinking these thoughts…but it's what goes on inside my head. Are white people the only race with the tendency to "other"? Non-white Jezzie readers, do you do it, too? Or is it just me? :( #swineflutest
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    10/27/09

    In reply to Seoul To Soul
    Aww, look at her little training bra!! #swineflutest
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    10/27/09

    @andBegorrah: dialogical comments are the best! #swineflutest
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    Image of Sophie needs to study...damn Sophie needs to study...damn
    10/08/09

    In reply to In South Korea, Single Parenthood Is A Radical Choice
    I give huge props to the American adoptive father. It appears that some of these mothers would consider raising their child instead of adoption if the severe shame associated with it was erased. Promoting international adoption has its problems when a parent who otherwise would like to keep their baby are shamed into giving them up.
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    Image of GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11) GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
    10/08/09

    In reply to In South Korea, Single Parenthood Is A Radical Choice
    "The government pays a monthly allowance of $85 per child to those who adopt children. It offers half that for single mothers of dependent children."

    That's so depressing.

    I've asked a friend who identifies as libertarian before, if the (American) government should provide money to poor mothers and parents who cannot afford to support their children without food stamps, or welfare, and he says that if you can't afford kids, you shouldn't have them. Which ironically means he thinks the government should step in and take the kids away. However, he realizes that it would then take money to fund the foster system to take these kids in. He's fine with that, and would prefer that we pay money to keep kids in the foster system, than with parents who don't "deserve" the kids, because they are too poor. In other words, we shouldn't pay people to parent their own kids, we should pay other people to parent the kids, regardless of how harmful it is to the kids. I think a lot of people have these judgments against poor parents and single moms on welfare, even in America.
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