Seoul, Oct 6 (NationPress) A total of 157 online government services have been successfully restored following an outage triggered by a fire at the state data management agency last month, as reported by the government on Monday.

As of 6 pm, the restoration rate stood at 24.3 percent, with 157 out of 647 services impacted by the fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon back online, according to the central disaster response headquarters, as noted by Yonhap News Agency.

The government-wide intranet, Onnara System, is now operational, they added.

The government has committed to speeding up efforts to restore the remaining services after developing plans to relocate 96 systems damaged in the fire to a national data center in Daegu, located approximately 235 kilometers southeast of Seoul, by Tuesday.

The incident began when a lithium-ion battery exploded in a server room on the fifth floor of the NIRS on September 26, and the fire was completely extinguished the following day.

A total of 96 systems were directly impacted by the fire.

As a precautionary measure, the government shut down 647 online systems to protect the services after the fire led to temperature and humidity control failures that could result in overheating.

Among the affected services, 436 are public programs and 211 are intranet systems used by government officials.

On October 3, the South Korean government stated its intention to expedite the restoration of online government services affected by the recent fire during the extended Chuseok holiday.

South Korea's Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung made this remark during a government meeting, a week after the fire at the NIRS in Daejeon, around 140 kilometers south of Seoul, caused a significant systems outage, as reported by Yonhap News Agency.

"The government will speed up restoration with exceptional determination, treating the seven-day holiday as golden time for recovery," he stated during the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters meeting. "We will ensure no gaps in administrative services and safety management during the holiday."

The seven-day break spans Chuseok, National Foundation Day, and Hangeul Day, beginning on October 3 and lasting until October 9.

Yun indicated that the government is in discussions with the presidential office and financial authorities to secure reserve funds for the NIRS' restoration and the relocation of damaged systems to an NIRS branch in Daegu.

"Normalizing computer network failures is anticipated to take time," he noted. "We plan to prioritize key systems directly related to people's daily lives and develop specific management protocols for them."