It Becomes Easier to Obtain Private Taxi Licenses in Daegu... "Promoting Influx of Young Adults from Other Regions"

Change "Currently residing for over 1 year" to "Previously resided for over 1 year"

Daegu City has amended the "Daegu Metropolitan City Private Taxi Transportation Business License Handling Regulations" to relax the residency and driving experience requirements among the private taxi transportation business license criteria, expanding opportunities for new entrants to private taxi services. The amendment will take effect from the 10th.

Until now, to obtain a private taxi license, applicants had to have been continuously registered as residents in Daegu City for at least one year as of the license application announcement date (transfer application date). Due to this regulation, young adults from other regions who moved to Daegu to drive private taxis had to wait for one year. The transfer and acquisition of private taxi licenses were not smoothly conducted, and related inconvenience complaints have been continuously raised.

Daegu City Sangyeok Government Office

To address these issues, the revised regulation allows those seeking new licenses, transferees, and those applying for substitute driving to transfer licenses if they have been continuously registered as residents in Daegu City for at least one year from the license application announcement date (calculated from the date of obtaining a driver's license), thereby relaxing the residency requirement.

Additionally, the requirement that applicants must have at least one year of continuous driving experience in taxis, city buses, or business-use private freight vehicles in Daegu City as of the license application announcement date has been relaxed. Now, if applicants have at least one year of continuous driving experience at a business located in Daegu City, they can transfer the license.

Kim Daeyoung, Director of the Daegu City Transportation Bureau, stated, "We expect that the relaxation of the private taxi license transfer criteria will provide a foundation to promote the influx of young and middle-aged people into the taxi industry." He added, "We will continue to prepare various policies to revitalize the stagnant taxi industry and strive to enhance both the activation of the taxi industry and the quality of taxi services."

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