President Lee Visits Daejeon NIRS on the 10th
Holds On-Site Roundtable with Recovery Staff
System Recovery Rate Reaches 30.2% as of Midnight on the 9th
On October 10, while on vacation, President Lee Jaemyung visited the Daejeon National Information Resources Service (NIRS) to inspect the recovery work and encourage the staff on site. The government has made every effort to restore the administrative information systems during the long Chuseok holiday, raising the recovery rate to around 30 percent.
That morning, President Lee visited the main NIRS facility in Daejeon to inspect the site of the fire-damaged battery and the external water tank where cooling operations were underway. He also met with civil servants and specialists who had been mobilized for the restoration of the administrative information systems.
This roundtable was arranged during President Lee's vacation. The presidential office explained that it was intended to encourage the on-site personnel who continued high-intensity work throughout the holiday without rest. After the NIRS fire, President Lee had instructed that critical systems related to vulnerable groups or public livelihoods should be restored "as quickly as possible, even if it means working through the night."
During the Chuseok holiday, the government mobilized more than 800 personnel for system recovery, including 220 civil servants, 570 on-site business staff, and 30 technical support and dust removal specialists. As of midnight on the 9th, 214 administrative information systems had been restored. The recovery rate, which was 17 percent as of 6 a.m. on the 2nd before the holiday began, had risen to 30.2 percent by this day, an increase of about 13 percentage points. Of the 40 top-priority systems, 30 have been fully restored.
In particular, with the restoration of the integrated operation management system 'nTOPS' during the holiday, the number of systems at the Daejeon Center increased from 647 to 709. The list expanded as some systems were subdivided by function. Until now, the list had been compiled based on remaining documents or staff recollections, as nTOPS was unavailable, but with its restoration, an accurate status report is now possible.
The government has also detailed its plan for restoring the systems in the fifth-floor data center, where the fire occurred. Initially, these systems were to be restored by migrating them to the Daegu Center's public-private cloud, but some will now be restored within the Daejeon Center by procuring new equipment. New equipment will be installed in the fifth and sixth data centers at Daejeon to restore systems there, while those moving to the Daegu Center will be transferred once coordination with private cloud providers and relevant ministries is complete. Major systems to be restored within the Daejeon Center include the National Secretary, National Petition System, and the e-Haneul Funeral Information System.
Meanwhile, on October 3, a civil servant at the director level from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, who was handling the national data network failure, died at the Government Complex Sejong. In response, after the death of the NIRS recovery official on October 3, the government stationed professional psychological counselors at the Government Complex Sejong and the NIRS Daejeon Center medical office. During the holiday, the number of Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters meetings was reduced to improve work efficiency, and staff not directly involved in recovery work were reprioritized to allow them to rest during the holiday.
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