Traffic builds up on highways on 1st day of Lunar New Year holiday

Traffic on major highways began to build up across South Korea on Saturday, as people headed to their hometowns to mark the Lunar New Year. The nation will mark the major holiday, known as Seol, on Tuesday, with the holiday period beginning over the weekend and running through Wednesday. As of 8 a.m., a drive from Seoul to the southeastern port city of Busan, 330 kilometers away, was expected to take approximately six hours and 50 minutes, according to the state-run Korea Expressway Corp. A trip