1. A system for monitoring the status of a driver of a vehicle, comprising: an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the face of a driver using a camera mounted on the steering wheel of the vehicle; and a control unit for correcting a tilt of the captured image received from the image capturing unit by rotating the captured image by a steering angle to provide a corrected image, and extracting characteristic parts of the face of the driver from the corrected image, thus determining the status of the driver.