Driving license in South Korea

[1][2] South Korea is one of the few nations that issue International Driving Permits (IDP) to sixteen-year-olds.

This was made possible by a South Korean law in 2009, which gave Military cadets the requirement of driving a motor-vehicle.

[3] Currently, there is no requirements for elderly drivers in South Korea to give up their driving license as they age.

However, various regional governments in South Korea give out benefits to senior citizens who give up their licenses voluntarily since at least 2023 due to an increase in traffic accidents involving senior drivers while the overall number of traffic accidents nationwide had been decreasing.

[4] In this case, the characters have a driver's license mechanism is as follows: (Road Traffic Enforcement Rules asterisk 20) [5] The birth-date and year is printed in the first row of numbers, surrounded by 0 in the month/date/year format.