Overview
- As of Friday 10 p.m., 128 of 647 disrupted services were back online, a 19.8% restoration including 12 first-tier government network systems.
- The Interior Ministry is treating the seven-day Chuseok break as critical recovery time, deploying civilian experts and pursuing reserve funds to speed repairs and relocations.
- A central document storage platform known as G Drive was destroyed without external backups, affecting 74 agencies and about 191,000 civil servants, and officials conceded the backup gap as a mistake.
- Police raided the NIRS and three companies and booked four people, including an on-site manager, on suspected occupational negligence in a probe focused on a lithium-ion battery explosion.
- An Interior Ministry official leading recovery died at the Sejong complex, prompting presidential condolences and a call to improve civil-servant working conditions, as a government task force moves to overhaul system governance and secure budgets.