Why has the NIRS Gongju Backup Center remained inoperative for 18 years?
log date: 2025-10-5 Overview of the case: Based on press releases distributed by the Ministry of Interior and Safety and South Korean media reports, on September 26, 2025 at 20:15, a fire broke out in the server room on the fifth floor of the Daejeon headquarters of the National Information Resources Service (NIRS ) in South Korea, and was reportedly extinguished after 21 hours. On October 20, 2022, as the head of NIRS at the time, Kang Dong-seok announced on KTV (Korea Policy Broadcasting) that the NIRS was prepared to recover within three hours in the event of a system failure due to a fire or other disaster. However, instead of Lee Jae-yong who is the current head of NIRS and didn't even make an official appearance yet, Minister of the Interior and Safety Yoon Ho-joong announced after the incident of September 26 that recovery would take considerable time because the government 's backup system was not operational. Immediately after Yoon's announcem...