163 online gov't services restored after data center fire

▲ Police officers prepare for an on-site investigation at the National Information Resources Service in the central city of Daejeon on Sept. 30, 2025. (Yonhap)

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163 online gov't services restored after data center fire

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- A total of 163 online government services have been restored following an outage caused by last month's fire at the state data center in the central city of Daejeon, the government said Tuesday.

As of 6 p.m., the restoration rate came to 25.2 percent as 163 out of 647 systems affected by the Sept. 26 fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) were brought back online, according to the central disaster response headquarters.

Among the services restored are the internal email service at the Korea Media and Communications Commission and the interior ministry's work management system.

The government said it will accelerate efforts to bring the remaining services back online with plans to move 96 systems destroyed in the fire to another national data center in Daegu, some 235 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

The fire began after a lithium-ion battery exploded in a server room on the fifth floor of the NIRS on Sept. 26 and was completely extinguished the following day.

A total of 96 systems were directly damaged by the fire.

The government shut down 647 online systems as a preemptive measure to safeguard the systems. Of the affected services, 436 are public programs and 211 are intranet systems for government officials.

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