"The fire broke out on Friday evening at the national information resources service in Daejeon, a major technology hub 140km (87 miles) south of Seoul. The facility is one of three operational government datacentres managing critical digital infrastructure across the country. Workers were relocating lithium-ion batteries from a fifth-floor server room to the basement for replacement when one ignited, with the fire spreading to other batteries and adjacent servers. One worker sustained first-degree burns, and firefighters extinguished the fire after 22 hours."
"By Saturday morning, officials had shut down 647 government systems fearing further damage. Government email and intranet systems ground to a halt. Mobile identification services went dark, as did postal banking, complaint portals, and major government websites. Schools could not access student records, and tax payment deadlines passed with systems offline. Real estate transactions stalled without digital document verification. A national crematorium booking system was affected, and some hospitals and transport terminals initially turned away citizens who lacked physical identification cards."
A fire at the national information resources service datacentre in Daejeon started when workers moved lithium-ion batteries and spread to nearby servers. Firefighters extinguished the blaze after 22 hours; one worker sustained first-degree burns. Officials shut down 647 government systems to prevent further damage, knocking out email, intranet, mobile ID, postal banking, complaint portals, and major websites. Schools lost access to student records, tax payments missed deadlines, and real estate transactions stalled. A crematorium booking system, some hospitals, and transport terminals were affected. By Tuesday, 89 systems were restored, 96 were estimated destroyed, and transferring services to a Daegu backup will take about four weeks.
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