Lunar New Year's Holiday

This weekend is extended a bit--Yeah!--as it is the Lunar New Year, or Seolnal. We get Monday and Tuesday off as national holidays (which means a 4-day weekend followed by a 3-day work week). This holiday, officially Jan. 26th, is bigger than the Jan 1st holiday, at least here in Korea (but also in China, where, I have recently read, it marks one of the biggest yearly migrations of people in the world). Many people return to their grandparents'/family home for traditional food, games, acknowledgement of family ties, etc. To get partly into the spirit of things, I am traveling to Seoul to visit friends. Supposedly I will not run into too much traffic with my buses as I am going against the flow; apparently several million people will be leaving Seoul as I am heading there, and then they will be returning as I am leaving. Since I hate getting stuck in traffic (Duh! Who doesn't?), I can only hope for the best . . . So, Happy Seolnal!