Saturday, October 16, 2010

Emily - Driving in Seoul

Prior to writing this one, I honestly should say something. After getting my drivers license in Korea, I have never driven so I have very low common sense about driving, but I will try to describe it in Korea.

We are allowed to get the license from 19 years old, which is the same tendency in drinking. I think driving test is quite strict and expensive, but it has a bit flexibility which means that the cost of the test is a little different from areas. Also most of men feel the driving test is easy, but some of women try to get the license several times.

In terms of driving accidents, a beginner of woman drivers tends to have more accidents because of unskilled driving. However, in my opinion, most of men have fatal accidents because they usually drive fast and try to pass the car ahead all the time while they are driving. Moreover, at night juvenile delinquency drive motorbike illegally too fast without any license, which has been becoming serious problem in Korea.

Lastly, there are different speed limits on the road. I am not sure about it, but if I try to say something, we need to drive approximately 60~80km on the normal road like downtown. Also we are allowed to drive over 120km on the motorway.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Emily,

    If you need more practice, Unitec (at the weekend) is a good place to drive... hardly any cars, small hills, no police. Yay!
    :) Is your licence an international one?

    Just a bit of feedback:
    Most men have fatal accidents = general (2 words)
    Most of the men in my city drive too fast = specific (4 words)

    The only way you can use 3 words is with a specific pronoun, e.g. Most of them (the men) drive too fast at night.

    Carolyn

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