'NIRS Fire': 25.2% of Paralyzed Administrative Systems Restored

Approximately 25% of the administrative information systems paralyzed by the fire at the Daejeon headquarters of the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) have been restored.

According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH), as of 6:00 p.m. on October 7, 163 out of 647 systems had been restored, recording a recovery rate of 25.2%.

On the 27th of last month, the window of the computer room at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Yuseong District, Daejeon was broken due to a fire. Photo by Yonhap News

The internal mail service of the Broadcasting and Media Communications Committee, the Business Support Plus system of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, and the Harmony System of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety were restored on this day.

The homepage for the National Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Census (a statistical survey service for farm, forestry, and fishery households) and the 2020 e-Census Economic Census (a major economic statistical survey service for businesses nationwide), both managed by the National Data Agency, were also restored. However, the number of restored first-grade core systems remained at 22, the same as the previous day.

For the 96 systems in the 7-1 computer room, which was completely destroyed by the fire, restoration is being pursued by transferring them to the "public-private cooperative cloud" within the Daegu Center.

Kim Minjae, Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and head of the NIRS on-site situation room, visited the Daegu Center in the afternoon to inspect the recovery site and check the status of cloud infrastructure construction as well as the management of the UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and batteries.

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

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