Repatriate Me!

Today is the beginning of the biggest, most important holiday in Korea – Chusoek. On this holiday everyone drives to visit their family. We usually go the week before or after in order to avoid the traffic, but this year we want to go since it will be our last Chuseok in Korea and the last opportunity for my wife to see all of her family (she has a very large family). We were going to go yesterday afternoon, but a couple of my students didn’t want to cancel class because they wanted some extra help with their essays so I went to school for my 3pm class.

image copied from YTN News

By the time I got home traffic was already intense so we decided to get up at 5am and drive out. Well overnight the traffic didn’t get any better. And a 2 hour drive from the toll booth to Daejon (about halfway to where we need to go) was now 4.5 hours, but that doesn’t include the drive to the toll booth which normally takes about 30 minutes but would probably be closer to 2 or 2.5 hours, which it did take us one time we drove out.

We may be heading out late afternoon depending on news reports or else getting up very early again tomorrow. Tomorrow should be better because typically on the second day of the holiday traffic is light due to everyone already having gotten to where they’re going.

Sep 20, 2010 Comments(5) Tweet

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