Heavy site visitors clogs a freeway in Yongin, some 40 kilometers south of Seoul, on Friday forward of the five-day Chuseok vacation. (Yonhap)
Site visitors was backing up closely on many expressways throughout the nation Saturday and is predicted to ease at round 8 p.m., on the primary day of the Chuseok vacation.
Chuseok, which falls on Tuesday this 12 months, is the Korean autumn harvest celebration throughout which individuals head to their hometowns to get along with relations and kinfolk and go to their ancestors’ graves.
The Chuseok break runs for 5 days from Saturday to Wednesday.
Based on the Korea Expressway Corp., main highways had been jammed with automobiles Saturday.
As of 9 a.m., the estimated journey time to Seoul was 7 hours and 10 minutes from the southeastern port metropolis of Busan, about 6 hours and 10 minutes from the southeastern metropolis of Daegu, and three hours and 40 minutes from the central metropolis of Daejeon.
The street congestion probably peaked at round 11 a.m. and is predicted to ease at round 8 p.m., in keeping with the company.
Some 420,000 automobiles are anticipated to hit the street touring from the larger Seoul space to the provinces, in addition to one other 430,000 heading from the provinces to the larger Seoul area, on Saturday alone, it added. (Yonhap)
