Republic of Korea Navy families in Jinhae entered a pre-deployment communications blackout Sept 20 that runs through Chuseok, leaving spouses to coordinate holiday travel and school pickups without shipboard calls for two weeks.
Ansan’s multicultural family support center is coaching mixed-heritage couples through split Chuseok in-law visit calendars, using wall planners and interpreter slots so Gyeonggi’s late-September traffic does not collapse one household into three days of conflict.