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Traffic congestion is expected to be heaviest on Tuesday, the fourth day of the Chuseok holiday, with highways jammed with travelers heading back home after visiting their hometowns.
According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, as of 12 p.m., the estimated travel time from Busan to Seoul was ten hours and 30 minutes and from Daegu to Seoul, nine hours and 30 minutes.
The estimated travel time from Mokpo to western Seoul was nine hours and 50 minutes, and nine hours and ten minutes from Gwangju to Seoul.
It’s estimated to be a drive of six hours and 20 minutes from Gangneung to Seoul and four hours and 50 minutes from Daejeon to Seoul.
The corporation expects a total of 66-point-nine million cars to hit the roads nationwide on Tuesday, with 490-thousand vehicles likely to take the outbound directions from the capital area and 510-thousand cars to flow into the capital area.
Traffic congestion is expected to ease between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. for southbound directions and between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Wednesday for northbound directions to the capital area.