Firefighters and officials respond to a fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon on Friday. - Yonhap via The Korea Herald/ANN
SEOUL: A major fire at South Korea's national data centre has crippled some government online services and internal networks, prompting a race on Saturday (Sept 27) to bring the systems back online and a probe of what sparked a lithium-ion battery to start the blaze.
The fire is suspected to have started with an explosion on Friday night of the battery produced by South Korea's LG Energy Solution during maintenance, damaging some servers and forcing the shutdown of hundreds of others, officials said.
