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Government Accelerates Recovery After NIRS Fire as Restoration Reaches 17.8%

Officials target an Oct. 28 rebuild for 96 destroyed systems in Daegu.

A message is displayed on an unmanned civil service machine at a subway station in Seoul on Sept. 28, 2025, which reads service has been suspended after the government computer network was crippled by a fire at the data center in the central city of Daejeon. (Yonhap)
Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung presides over a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters at the government complex in Seoul on Oct. 3, 2025. (Yonhap)

Overview

  • A week after the blaze at the state data agency in Daejeon, 17.8% of 647 online government services are back online.
  • Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung said the seven-day Chuseok break will be treated as golden time for recovery, with staffing and resources surged on site.
  • The government is seeking reserve funds in coordination with the presidential office and financial authorities to speed restoration and relocation.
  • Engineers are replacing the uninterruptible power supply and relocating equipment in the affected server room to stabilize infrastructure.
  • Police raided the NIRS and three companies after booking four people on suspected negligence, and officials confirmed the G Drive was destroyed without an external backup used by 74 agencies and about 191,000 staff.