NIRS Fire Enters 12th Day... Restoration Rate at 24.6%

159 Out of 647 Administrative Information Systems Restored

Kim Minjae Vice Minister Yonhap News

Approximately 25% of the administrative information systems that were paralyzed due to the fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters have been restored. Out of 647 administrative information systems, 159 have been restored, including 22 first-grade core work systems.

According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH) on October 7, as of 1 p.m. on the twelfth day since the NIRS fire, the restoration rate stands at 24.6%.

Compared to the previous day, two additional systems have been restored: the National Data Agency’s website for the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Census (a statistical survey service for farms, forestry households, and fisheries) and the 2020 e-Census Economic Census (a major economic statistics survey service for businesses nationwide).

After the fire at the NIRS Daejeon headquarters on September 26 led to the suspension of 647 government information systems, the government has mobilized all available personnel and equipment to carry out restoration work.

In particular, 96 systems from the 7-1 data center, which was completely destroyed by the fire, are being restored by migrating them to the “public-private cooperative cloud” at the Daegu Center.

Kim Minjae, Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and head of the NIRS on-site situation room, plans to visit the Daegu Center this afternoon to inspect the restoration work, check the status of cloud infrastructure construction, and review the management of the UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and batteries.

The government expects that by utilizing private cloud services, the suspended systems can be restored quickly without the need to build separate hardware.

However, there are still concerns about the slow pace of restoration, as only about a quarter of the systems have been restored even after twelve days since the large-scale disruption occurred.

Kim Minjae stated, "We will do our utmost to restore the systems in collaboration with private cloud companies so that public inconvenience can be resolved as quickly as possible."