Prime Minister Kim Min-seok visited the fire site at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon on the 27th and urged, "Now that we have shifted to a full-scale recovery posture, put every effort into swiftly assessing the damage and drawing up a recovery plan."
After inspecting the fifth-floor computer room at NIRS, where the fire broke out, that afternoon, Kim received on-site briefings on the fire damage and plans to restore the national computing network.
Instructing officials to verify whether the administrative information systems installed on the second to fourth floors of NIRS, where no fire occurred, can be restarted, Kim said, "Please restore as quickly as possible the systems most accessed by the public, such as services directly tied to people's economic activities like Post Office banking or those that could immediately cause inconvenience during the Chuseok holiday such as Post Office parcel delivery, and Government 24."
Kim said, "I apologize to the public that it is difficult to say clearly when the systems can be restored and normalized," adding, "To minimize inconvenience in daily life, we will do our utmost by preparing various alternatives, including handwritten civil complaint intake, operation of alternative sites, and extensions of deadlines for taxes or document submissions."
According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, the number of business systems whose operations were suspended due to the fire stands at 647. Of these, 436 are internet networks directly used by the public, and the remaining 211 are internal administrative networks that public officials use for work services.
The suspended services include the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission's e-People, the Ministry of Science and ICT's Internet Post Office, the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Bokjiro and Social Service Portal, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's Government 24, National Secretary, mobile ID, Information Disclosure System, On-nara Document, Safety e-Report, and Safety Stepping Stone, as well as the Public Procurement Service's Nara Marketplace and integrated shopping mall.
Judging that there is no possibility of additional accidents, the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters has begun full-fledged recovery work. It aims to restore the constant temperature and humidity units within the day and the network equipment by the following day. If the work is completed as scheduled, 551 systems that had been halted will be restarted in stages.
The fire authorities declared complete extinguishment at around 6 p.m., 22 hours after the fire broke out, and at around 9:36 p.m., they removed all 384 lithium-ion battery packs that were completely burned from the building and are cooling them by submerging them in a mobile water tank.