Photograph : YONHAP Information
The nation’s highways are closely congested on Saturday as South Koreans head to their hometowns for the Chuseok holidays.
In accordance with the Korea Expressway Company(KEC), as of two p.m., the anticipated journey time from Seoul to Busan was six hours, whereas it was 4 hours and 40 minutes from Seoul to Gwangju, and two hours and 40 minutes from Seoul to Daejeon.
The KEC projected some 420-thousand automobiles to depart from the capital area.
Site visitors congestion peaked round midday and can begin to ease within the night, between 8 and 9 p.m.