Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

"A fire in a data center in South Korea led to a massive network outage, and chat app Kakao responded that" the financial impact is expected to be limited ".

CTOnews.com, October 16, local time, a fire broke out in the Cunc Banqiao data center of SK, South Korea, causing disruptions to several services, including Kakao Talk, South Korea's largest mobile communications application.

On October 16, Lee Jong-ho, director of the Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communications of South Korea, apologized for the incident. South Korea's president on Sunday called for swift measures to restore all services provided by Kakao Corp and Naver Corp.

CTOnews.com learned that service disruptions led to outages of some of the country's most commonly used applications and websites, including Kakao and the company's online payment, games and music streaming services. There are also portals such as Daum.

These failures highlight South Korea's reliance on Kakao messages, the default means of communication for many government and business services.

The South Korean government requires that measures be taken to prevent the recurrence of such incidents, including ensuring that data are backed up and accidents are reported promptly.

South Korean Minister of Science and Information and Communications Technology Lee Jong-ho visited the Pangyo damaged data center in southern Seoul and said the government would look for systematic support measures to prevent such failures from happening again, Yonhap news agency reported. It is reported that a senior official in South Korea's presidential office said it was necessary to investigate whether backbone enterprises such as Kakao adopted a laissez-faire attitude when citizens suffered inconvenience.

The relevant company apologized to the customer for the interruption of service.

The Kakao messaging app Kakao Talk has more than 47 million active users in South Korea and 53 million users worldwide, the company said in an August report.

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