A fire triggered by a lithium-ion battery explosion on the evening of Sept. 26 has paralysed a large swathe of South Korea’s online government services and provoked urgent remedial action from Seoul.

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With services offline for a week, the incident may reshape safety standards, insurance premiums, and infrastructure design, forcing enterprises to balance efficiency with resilience and regulatory ...

South Korea’s government has warned that recovering systems compromised by a fire at a data center last week could take up to a month. A battery fire at the National Information Resources Service ...

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon, South Korea affected all of its servers, suspending 647 online government systems across the nation in the process. The fire, ...

SEOUL – The South Korean government said Monday that it will take up to a month to fully recover 96 core systems directly damaged in Friday’s fire at the National Information Resources Service in ...

The fire hit servers at the National Information Resources Management Agency after breaking out during routine maintenance on Friday night.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won’t give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pledged a "significant improvement" in the security of government administrative systems following a major fire at the National Information Resources Service in ...

A fire at a South Korean data center disrupted numerous government services, highlighting vulnerabilities in the country's digital infrastructure. The blaze affected over 600 systems, with only a ...

A fire at a South Korean data center caused massive disruptions to public services, exposing the vulnerabilities in the country's digital infrastructure. Although some services were quickly restored, ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has restored 46 government services after a fire at a data centre disrupted websites and digital public amenities, Safety Minister Yun Hojung said on Monday. “We see ...