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[Insert Asian Drivers Joke]: Korean Woman Passes Driver’s Test On 950th Try

Cha Sa-soon, a 68 year-old woman in Jeongju, South Korea, has finally passed her driver’s exam after four years, $4,200 in application fees, and 950 attempts.

Her written driver’s exam, that is. Cha still has to master the driving portion of the test behind the wheel of an actual car (okay, maybe like a Kia rather than an actual car-car) in order to get her license.

I know many of you are thinking, Commence the bad Asian drivers jokes *groan* or Granny’s undoing all my good work and the sweet rep we’ve been building since Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, but I’m really stuck on the fact that she failed her written test 949 times.

I mean, isn’t being awesome at test-taking our goddamn birthright?

[AP: SKorean woman passes driver's exam on 950th try]

Thanks to all the bad drivers who sent this one in.

Filed under: bad asian drivers, Cha Sa-soon, Driver's License, Driver's Test, Good Asian Drivers, South Korean Woman Passes Driver's Test on 950th Try, Stereotypes, Test-taking

ROCK OF ASIAN: Hooray! The Good Asian Drivers Release Debut LP: Drive Away Home

Jen and I are longtime friends and fans of the Good Asian Drivers, an edgy, poetry-based folk duo based out of Boston. They’re an adorable pair with all of the qualities we love: gender/race/sexuality-bending politics, mad Guitar Hero skillz, a hankering for dumplings, and great taste in blogs.

At long last, the band has added a third member (guitarist Ashley Baier) and released their first studio record, Drive Away Home. The album is a delightfully strong, yet casual mishmash of earnest, vivacious, alt-acoustic songs and eclectic, chaotic spoken word tracks. Despite its loose form, the album finds solid ground in its straightforward tone and spine of honesty. Transgender slam master Kit Yan pulls no punches in his spiraling disquisitions, not even when referring to himself: “But are you a man? Or are you a woman?/And you changed your name to ‘Kit’ now, so… do you wanna be straight?/And you look like a boy now, so… you’re straight, right?/But back when you were ‘Laura,’ you were gay/As if sexuality and gender were things that you could purchase on impulse.”

Good? Yes. Asian? Totally. Wherever these cool cats are driving, we wanna go.

[Good Asian Drivers - Official site]
[Buy Drive Away Home here]

xo, Melissa and Kit!

Filed under: Ashley Baier, Bostonians, Breaking Stereotypes, Folk Tunes, Friends are Nice, Gender Benders, Good Asian Drivers, Guitar Hero, Kit Yan, Melissa Yi, Slam Poets, Spoken Word

ROCK OF ASIAN: Good Asian Drivers

The photo really does say it all, doesn’t it? Good Asian Drivers are a silly, funny, adorably angry band that combines folk guitar with spoken word poetry and ballsy, ticklish lyrics (we’re suckers for “fuck” and “dildo”). They’re out to break stereotypes and rock out–not terrible goals.

Basically, they’re cute and fun, and we want to challenge them to Slayer on Guitar Hero.

See more of these wacky Bostonians here.

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Filed under: "Fuck", Bostonians, Dildos, Dumbass Stereotypes, Folk Tunes, Fun, Good Asian Drivers, Guitar Hero, Spoken Word