Autos pack a freeway southern Seoul, Jan. 29. Yonhap
Each instructions on main highways throughout Korea remained congested with homecoming and returning automobiles on Lunar New 12 months on Wednesday, with site visitors anticipated to ease later within the day.
On some sections of the Gyeongbu Expressway, which hyperlinks Seoul to the southeastern metropolis of Busan by way of main cities, vehicles had been usually at a standstill as of Wednesday afternoon as a result of heavy site visitors.
On Wednesday, the fifth day of this 12 months’s prolonged six-day Lunar New 12 months vacation, often known as Seol, an estimated 6.39 million vehicles had been predicted to journey on highways nationwide in each instructions to and from the broader capital area, in keeping with Korea Expressway Corp.
Automobiles had been additionally at a standstill or transferring slowly on sections of different main highways, such because the Namhae and Yeongdong expressways.
Korea Expressway anticipated site visitors would ease after Wednesday night as automobiles filter from each instructions on the highways. (Yonhap)
