Fire at Korean Data Center
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wrote on 18 Oct 2022, 12:20 last edited by
Unprecedented service disruption.
A fire at a data center near Seoul has disrupted services of Korea's dominant messenger and internet portal for a day, affecting nearly all sectors of the country, even finance and transportation.
The fire broke out at 3:33 p.m. Saturday at the building of SK CC located in Pangyo, just south of Seoul, which houses the data centers for Naver and Kakao, Korea's two major tech giants.
Right after the fire started, the power was cut off at the data center for safety reasons. The fire was extinguished some eight hours later.
The absolute horror these people lived through!
Users said they are experiencing inconvenience in their daily lives and business as KakaoTalk chat rooms are widely used as a tool to receive exclusive messages, coupons and other real-time information. The messenger, launched in 2010, also offers a platform to help users buy real-life goods, play games and access banking services.
Email? The absolute worst!
"I needed to receive a photo from my business partner through KakaoTalk. But I had to go through an inconvenient process to get the photo through email because of the KakaoTalk disruption," said a KakaoTalk user, asking for anonymity. "I should've used Telegram."
I might have to write a check!
"I send some money to my parents every month automatically through Kakao Pay, but I can't verify it," said a user of the platform.
Public transportation!
"After dinner last night, I tapped on the Kakao T app to call a cab, but it didn't work," said another user. "So I took the subway home."
I know, I know.
I just find it kind of amusing that the story about a potentially huge deal is peppered with these relatively minor inconvenience anecdotes.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2022, 13:03 last edited by
That's the thing with South Korea.
Telecom and Internet service outages routinely make the news.
Unlike the USA, unless it's part of a story concerning a natural disaster, service outages generally don't get reported in the news. -
wrote on 19 Oct 2022, 04:53 last edited by
S.Korean chat app Kakao's co-CEO steps down after widespread outage
https://www.reuters.com/technology/co-ceo-skoreas-kakao-steps-down-after-outage-public-backlash-2022-10-19/ -
Unprecedented service disruption.
A fire at a data center near Seoul has disrupted services of Korea's dominant messenger and internet portal for a day, affecting nearly all sectors of the country, even finance and transportation.
The fire broke out at 3:33 p.m. Saturday at the building of SK CC located in Pangyo, just south of Seoul, which houses the data centers for Naver and Kakao, Korea's two major tech giants.
Right after the fire started, the power was cut off at the data center for safety reasons. The fire was extinguished some eight hours later.
The absolute horror these people lived through!
Users said they are experiencing inconvenience in their daily lives and business as KakaoTalk chat rooms are widely used as a tool to receive exclusive messages, coupons and other real-time information. The messenger, launched in 2010, also offers a platform to help users buy real-life goods, play games and access banking services.
Email? The absolute worst!
"I needed to receive a photo from my business partner through KakaoTalk. But I had to go through an inconvenient process to get the photo through email because of the KakaoTalk disruption," said a KakaoTalk user, asking for anonymity. "I should've used Telegram."
I might have to write a check!
"I send some money to my parents every month automatically through Kakao Pay, but I can't verify it," said a user of the platform.
Public transportation!
"After dinner last night, I tapped on the Kakao T app to call a cab, but it didn't work," said another user. "So I took the subway home."
I know, I know.
I just find it kind of amusing that the story about a potentially huge deal is peppered with these relatively minor inconvenience anecdotes.
wrote on 19 Oct 2022, 14:36 last edited by@George-K said in Fire at Korean Data Center:
I just find it kind of amusing that the story about a potentially huge deal is peppered with these relatively minor inconvenience anecdotes.
I agree with you. LOL People think it is the end of the world if they cannot add a "like" to someones Snap. LOL
But, in another thread, people were talking about using various apps for paying everything in everyday life. If it effected things like that, it would be a problem.