On the morning of the 8th, the sixth day of the Chuseok holiday, expressways nationwide were flowing relatively smoothly, but lines of vehicles were moving slowly in some sections.
According to the Korea Expressway Corporation, as of 8 a.m. that day, the estimated travel time by passenger car from tollgates in major cities nationwide to Seoul was 6 hours 50 minutes from Busan, 5 hours 50 minutes from Mokpo and Ulsan, 4 hours 40 minutes from Daegu, 3 hours 50 minutes from Gwangju, 2 hours 40 minutes from Gangneung, and 1 hour 48 minutes from Daejeon.
Conversely, the travel times from the Seoul Tollgate to each city were 5 hours to Busan and Ulsan, 4 hours 20 minutes to Daegu, 3 hours 50 minutes to Gangneung, 3 hours 49 minutes to Mokpo, 3 hours 21 minutes to Gwangju, 3 hours 50 minutes to Gangneung, and 1 hour 40 minutes to Daejeon. On the Seohaean Expressway toward Seoul, congestion was occurring over 3 km from near the Gunsan Service Area to the Dong-Seocheon Junction.
On the Gyeongbu Expressway toward Seoul, traffic was slow near the Sintanjin IC and on the Banpo IC–Hannam IC section entering Seoul. Toward Busan, vehicles were moving at a relatively slow speed on the Hannam IC–Seocho IC section, the Yeongdong IC–Hwanggan Service Area, and near the Seoulsan IC.
Elsewhere, aside from some sections with slowdowns on the Gyeongbu, Jungbu, Yeongdong, and Capital Area First Ring Expressway, traffic was generally flowing smoothly.
The corporation expected that homebound congestion that began around 7–8 a.m. that day would peak around 5–6 p.m. and ease around 1–2 a.m. the following day. Outbound-to-hometown congestion was forecast to become heavy around 9–10 a.m., peak around 12–1 p.m., and clear around 7–8 p.m.
The corporation projected nationwide traffic volume that day at 5.46 million vehicles, with 320,000 vehicles moving from the provinces to the capital region and 330,000 moving from the capital region to the provinces.