
"About 95 percent of the server is recovered as of 6 a.m. "The restoring measures are under way since the power supply to the SK C&C Pangyo data center resumed at 1:30 a.m.

Naver's services suffered a partial malfunction on the day of fire, but they were restored in a few hours. The financial arm has its main data center in Sangam, western Seoul, so there were no major disruptions to its core services, but some of its features had been unavailable.Įight out of Kakao's 13 other affiliates, including Kakao's internet portal Daum and Kakao T, a transportation service app, remained partially down.Īccording to the Ministry of Science and Technology, most of Naver's servers have also been recovered. had been fully normalized around noon, the company said. Kakao Pay, a mobile payment and digital wallet service, Kakao Games, Kakao Webtoon and Zigzag, an e-commerce platform, are also fully available. Some experience a slowdown in sending massive video clips through KakaoTalk. Services of KakaoTalk, the most popular mobile messenger in the country of 51 million people, with 43 million monthly active users, are operating normally as of Monday morning. Kakao said the recovery process is taking longer than expected due to a massive server loss. The reason for the fire is still being investigated. Saturday.Īt 4:52 p.m., fire officials asked the data center to turn the entire power off in order to extinguish the fire, which led to the widespread server outage.


(Yonhap)Īccording to authorities, closed-circuit television caught a fire starting on a battery stored on the third basement of the data center at 3:19 p.m. Firefighters work at the SK C&C data center located in Pangyo, just south of Seoul, on Oct.
