SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A program requiring drivers aged 65 or older to voluntarily return their licenses is in place in Seoul and some other local governments. However, in rural areas, where public transportation infrastructure is poor and the elderly population is a more significant demographic, there are voices of concern. According to [...]
BUSAN, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Programs designed to replace foreigners’ driver’s licenses with local ones were found to be full of loopholes after a recent case in which Vietnamese individuals used a forged driver’s license to obtain a South Korean license. The Road Traffic Authority Driver’s License Examination Office could not distinguish a forged [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 5,000 people over 65 years of age voluntarily turned in their driver’s license in Busan last year. Ever since a new policy was first implemented allowing senior drivers to turn in their driver’s license, the number of fatal car accidents committed by senior drivers has dropped by [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of public institutions nationwide that support multicultural families are offering programs to help immigrants acquire a driver’s license. The Chuncheon Healthy Home Multicultural Family Support Center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province announced on Thursday that it will begin offering special courses from March for members of multicultural families [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean authorities have revoked driver’s licenses of visually impaired athletes who took part in the Asian Para Games, officials here said Friday, following their vision tests. According to the sports ministry and the Korea Paralympic Committee (KPC), the blind athletes recently retook the aptitude test for driver’s licenses [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Road Traffic Authority, the government agency that issues driving licenses, has recently reduced the number of languages in which written driving exams are offered for foreigners living in South Korea. Due to the growing number of foreigners in South Korea, the new measure is bound to be an [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea rolled out a new, more challenging, driving test on Thursday, and it has already been met with sighs and groans from test takers. “A”, whose identity was withheld, visited a driving test facility in Busan early Thursday to renew his license after 10 years of driving. To his [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and Hawaii have signed a pact to recognize the validity of noncommercial driver’s licenses issued by each other, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Under the agreement, which went into force Wednesday in the U.S. state after being signed, holders of driver’s licenses issued by their own authorities [...]
SEOUL, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to a recent increase in the number of fatal traffic accidents, the procedure to obtain a driver’s license in South Korea has become the object of public criticism. The Korean driver’s license examination was simplified for the “convenience of citizens” in 2010 and 2011, putting everyone at risk by [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As camping and water-related leisure activities increase, the South Korean government has decided to introduce a driver’s license category exclusively for vehicles suited to these types of activities. According to the National Police Agency, a revised bill for the Road Traffic Act, which includes the introduction of a driver’s [...]