The Seoul downtown part of the Gyeongbu Expressway is seen from the Jamwon interchange in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the morning of Chuseok, Tuesday. (Yonhap)
Seoul-bound visitors on main expressways is clogged on Tuesday, the fourth day of the prolonged Chuseok vacation, with visitors jams anticipated to be eased the next day, in accordance with the expressway operator.
This yr’s Chuseok, the Korean fall harvest celebration, falls on Tuesday, and the prolonged vacation runs from Saturday till Wednesday.
As of 8 a.m., the estimated journey time from the southwestern metropolis of Mokpo to Seoul was seven hours and 50 minutes, six hours and half-hour from the southeastern metropolis of Busan, and 5 hours and half-hour from the southeastern metropolis of Daegu, in accordance with the Korea Expressway Corp.
The KEC mentioned 6.69 million automobiles are anticipated to hit the roads Tuesday, together with 490,000 touring from the capital area to the provinces and 510,000 touring from the provinces to the capital space.
Outbound visitors from Seoul was regular with no congestion, the KEC mentioned, anticipating inbound visitors to the capital metropolis will ease round 3 to 4 a.m. on Wednesday. (Yonhap)
