All 40 "Grade 1" systems—those most closely tied to people's daily lives—among the government computer networks disrupted by a fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) have been restored.
According to the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters (CDSCH), as of 7 a.m. on the 31st, 629 of the 709 administrative information systems paralyzed by the fire had been normalized. The overall system recovery rate is 88.7%.
In particular, all Grade 1 systems have been normalized. It has been 36 days since the fire occurred. National administrative information systems are classified into Grades 1 to 4 based on the number of users and ripple effects, among other factors, with Grade 1 being relatively more important. The last Grade 1 system the government restored was the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's "integrated situation management for disaster management work portal." It is an internal, work-use system that plays roles such as disaster dissemination.
The government also restored the National Fire Agency's "119 on-site integrated management" system. Classified as Grade 3, it is a disaster response system that enables the National Fire Agency's headquarters to centrally conduct real-time integrated control of 119 calls and dispatch statuses and share on-site information and command and operation situations.
Recovery by grade based on system importance stands at ▲ Grade 2: 91.2% (6 not yet restored) ▲ Grade 3: 88.5% (30 not yet restored) ▲ Grade 4: 87.1% (44 not yet restored). At this pace, the recovery rate of the entire government administrative network is expected to surpass 90% over the weekend.
Minister of the Interior and Safety Yoon Ho-jung, presiding over the CDSCH meeting that morning, said, "We still need to restore 78 systems, and of these, 64 are undergoing continued restoration work at the Daejeon center," and added, "We are implementing a step-by-step plan with the goal of completing all restorations by the third week of Nov."
Yoon said, "We will use this not only to restore the government administrative information systems but also as an opportunity to further solidify the foundation of the digital government and strengthen stability and efficiency," adding, "We will push for a fundamental redesign of the government administrative information system infrastructure and build a substantive artificial intelligence (AI) democratic government."