Ladium Battery Blaze in South Korea Paralyzes Government Services
- Doyoung Lim
- Oct 2
- 1 min read
Oct 2, 2025
Doyoung Lim
A massive fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service data center has paralyzed hundreds of online government services and the internal network. The blaze, suspected to have started with an explosion on Friday night of the battery at South Korea’s national data center, crippled as a cloud server for many government services and databases.
Some government services, the mobile identification system, the postal service, and the government legal database, along with several ministry websites, were paralyzed on Saturday after the fire in Daejeon.
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok apologized for the inconvenience to the public in a televised emergency meeting, announcing working immediately to restore services. “There were difficulties in containing the fire because of the nature of critical government systems being concentrated at one site,” he said.
So far, the 119 emergency rescue service’s location-tracking function remains unavailable, leaving only voice call service capability intact. In total, hundreds of internal and external services are suspended, including the mobile identification system and postal service.
