SEOUL: A major blaze in South Korea that knocked out a wide range of key digital services for days – snarling banking, ride-sharing and online deliveries – is reigniting safety concerns in a nation that’s a key global supplier of lithium-ion cells used in electric vehicles (EVs).
The days-long outage followed a fire Oct 15 at a data centre in Pangyo which engulfed batteries used in backup power systems, impacting key local tech firms including Kakao Corp, South Korea’s almost ubiquitous social media giant and provider of the country’s most popular instant messaging service.
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