South Koreans head for their hometown to celebrate the Lunar

Southbound traffic is backed up near a tollgate on the Seoul-Busan Expressway in Seongnam, south of Seoul, February 5, 2008. Millions of South Koreans will visit their hometowns during the three-day lunar new year holiday which begins on Wednesday.

Streams of cars clog a major highway in Seoul as South Koreans head for their hometown to celebrate the Lunar New Year holiday Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008. According to the Ministry of Construction and Transportation and the Korea Highway Corp., more than 20 million people will visit their hometowns during the three-day holiday that begins Wednesday.

Vehicles are caught in a heavy traffic on the main gate of an express way in Seoul on February 5, 2008 ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Millions of South Koreans began taking to the roads, jamming routes nationwide, on the eve of the country's most important holiday marking Lunar New Year.