Chuncheon Attorney Recommendation | Helping a Client Charged With Driving Without a License Conclude With a Minor Fine

🔗Driving without a license refers to operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license. A person whose driver's license has been revoked is also punished for driving without a license if that person operates a motor vehicle.

A person who operates a motor vehicle without having obtained a driver's license, or while the validity of the license is suspended, may be punished by imprisonment of up to one year or a fine of up to three million won.

A person who violates the prohibition on driving without a license, or the prohibition on driving during the period in which the license is suspended, and is sentenced to a fine or heavier penalty may not reacquire a driver's license until the following period passes from the date of the violation (or, where the license was revoked for driving during the suspension period, from the date of revocation).

However, where a person causes the death or injury of another in a 🔗accident while driving without a license and then fails to fulfill the duty to take measures at the scene of the accident, that person may not obtain a driver's license within five years from the date of the violation.

The types of driving without a license defined by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority are as follows.

∙Driving without having obtained a driver's license

∙Driving a motor vehicle other than the type permitted by the class of one's license

∙Driving by a person whose license has been revoked

∙Driving during the period in which the license is suspended

∙Driving after passing the driving test but before the license is issued

∙Practicing driving without having obtained a learner's permit

The client runs a small business together with his wife.

On the day of the incident, the shop had run out of supplies and he urgently needed to go and buy more, but there was no one else who could help.

The nearest store to the client's shop was more than thirty minutes away on foot one way.

In that situation, the client impulsively committed this act of driving without a license.

The attorney requested leniency, emphasizing that the client had not committed the offense with deliberate, premeditated intent.

The client currently carries a considerable amount of debt and sustains his livelihood by running the shop diligently together with his wife.

On the day of this incident as well, he committed the offense unavoidably in order to keep the shop running.

The attorney requested leniency, emphasizing that the offense was one the client had committed unavoidably for the sake of his livelihood.