South Korea’s KakaoTalk Partially Restored After Fire at Data Center Fire Causes 11-Hour Outage

South Korea’s KakaoTalk Partially Restored After Fire at Data Center Fire Causes 11-Hour Outage
The Kakao messaging application and the Kakao T taxi booking application are seen on a mobile phone in this illustration photo March 13, 2018. Thomas White/Illustration/Reuters
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South Korea’s tech powerhouse Kakao Corp. has restored 40 percent of its data center’s servers 11 hours after a fire at its data center caused service disruptions across some of the nation’s most used tech platforms.

Servers hosted at a data center operated by SK C&C in Pangyo, south of Seoul, caught fire on Saturday, causing outages for major platforms like Kakao and Naver from 3:30 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday local time.

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