Return Traffic Peaks on Last Day of Chuseok Holiday, Congestion Expected to Ease Late Night

Traffic congestion has begun on major expressways across the country since this morning, the final day of the Chuseok holiday.

As of 9:00 a.m. today (September 27), the Korea Expressway Corporation projected that travel times to the Seoul Tollgate from major cities will take 5 hours from Busan, 3 hours and 40 minutes from Gwangju, 2 hours and 50 minutes from Gangneung, and 1 hour and 50 minutes from Daejeon.

The corporation forecasts that the return traffic congestion will peak between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., and dissipate around 10:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

The total nationwide traffic volume for today is expected to be around 5.24 million vehicles.

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