Housing 4 million people in the second largest city of Korea, Busan, I am not surprised to see massive traffics around. However, it is quite the contrary.
Yesterday, we went to Jinju, just an hour and a half journey away from Busan to view the beautiful old castle and the surrounding compound. Very serene and beautiful housing the history of the invasion from Japan in 1592.
On our way back in the evening for our bus home to Busan, we noticed there was a massive jam built up in the rural highland road, which I do not understand why the driver took the road. We were stuck in the jam for two hours and a half before approaching to the highway leading back to Busan. The long journey spelled agony for people, especially for working folks and students from their respective hometowns to the city. For us, it's the pain in the ass (just physical expression, hahaha).
I guess the bottleneck was due to the massive traffics suddenly poured in from everywhere to a small town and the two-lane country road could not handle the massive traffic at one go. The city's traffic still remained smooth flowing. I wonder how they do that? In Malaysia, you could hardly see this. It's an eye-opener for me.