Opposition: "Administrative Network Down... President Yoon Must Apologize to the Public"

The Democratic Party of Korea strongly stated that the government should "immediately apologize to the public and promptly dismiss Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min" regarding the incident where public institutions' civil complaint services to the public were suspended due to a national information system service failure.

On the 17th, a network outage notice was displayed on the unmanned civil service issuance machine in the civil service office of the National Assembly Members' Office Building in Seoul due to a failure in the nationwide local government administrative computer network. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

On the 18th, spokesperson Kang Seon-woo said at a National Assembly briefing, "In this unprecedented blackout incident, does the Yoon Seok-yeol administration have anything it can do properly?" and criticized, "Although enormous inconvenience and damage occurred, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety has not even found the specific cause and is still struggling."

Spokesperson Kang continued, "The biggest problem is that there was no preparation for such an incident," and pointed out, "This is not the first time that the government's administrative network went down, causing the suspension of civil complaint services to the public."

He also mentioned, "Just five months ago, the 4th generation Education Administration Information System went down from its first day of launch, and the next-generation Social Security Information System still continues to have errors."

Spokesperson Kang urged an apology, saying, "It is a waste even to say 'pathetic' to the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, which showed the height of incompetence by telling people to 'wait until recovery.'"

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