Poll Says 3 Out of 4 Seoul Residents Will Stay Home for Chuseok Holiday

GIKorea | September 27, 2020 | Seoul | 2 Comments

This might be the first Chuseok in a long time without bumper to bumper traffic if this poll is to be believed:

This file photo taken in a rural village in Boseong, southwestern South Korea, on Sept. 14, 2020, shows a banner written by village elders to urge their urban sons and daughters not to visit their hometowns during the Chuseok holiday due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Yonhap)

Three in four Seoul citizens don’t have any plans to visit their hometowns or travel long distances during the Chuseok holiday due mainly to fears of coronavirus transmission, a poll showed Saturday.
In the survey of 849 citizens aged 18 or older, 56.8 percent said they have no plans to travel long distances during Chuseok, while another 16 percent said they have canceled their holiday travel plans due to COVID-19.
Merely 12.4 percent said they have travel plans during the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving, with 14.8 percent saying they are still undecided whether to travel.
Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but what I always tell people is that the best time to go to Seoul is on Chuseok. It is easy to get around with little to no lines for anything because of how many people leave the city for the holiday. Apparently that will not be the case this year.