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South Korea Accelerates Data Center Recovery as 128 Government Services Are Restored

Officials target Oct. 28 to reestablish 96 destroyed systems at the Daegu center.

President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a meeting with elderly Korean War refugees while looking toward North Korea at the Ganghwa Peace Observatory in the western city of Incheon on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo) (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)
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok speaks during a safety inspection meeting at the government complex in downtown Seoul on Oct. 2, 2025. (Yonhap)
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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.