A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil servants.
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A fire on September 27 at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, which was used by about 750,000 civil servants to store work files. The blaze damaged 96 critical government information systems, and because the G-Drive was built as a large-capacity, low-performance system without external backups, most of its data has been irretrievably lost. The Ministry of Personnel Management, which required exclusive use of G-Drive for document storage, was among the hardest hit. Authorities are now trying to recover files from civil servants’ local computers, emails, printed materials, and the OnNara document system, which stores some official reports separately. The Interior Ministry admitted that while most government systems had backup protocols, G-Drive’s design prevented remote redundancy, leaving it uniquely vulnerable. The incident has sparked public and political criticism over the government’s inadequate data management and disaster-recovery policies.