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2022 - 10 - 15

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Kakao, Naver suffer service disruption due to fire at data center (Korea Times)

Korea's two major tech giants - Kakao Corp. and Naver Corp. - suffered a service malfunction on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, officials said.

The power was cut off at the data center for safety reasons and will be resumed sometime soon. The building also houses the data centers for Naver and Kakao. The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m.

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(LEAD) Kakao, Naver suffer service disruption due to fire at data ... (Yonhap News)

ATTN: UPDATES with more info in paras 3, 6; CHANGES photo) SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Yonhap) -- S...

The power was cut off at the data center for safety reasons and will be resumed sometime soon. The building also houses the data centers for Naver and Kakao. The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m.

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Kakao's service, including Kakaotalk, is down due to a fire in the ... (pickool)

Philip Lee KakaoTalk, South Korea's largest messenger service by Kakao (KRX: 035720), has suffered a service outage due to its data center fire.

A fire broke out in the data center at around 3:30 p.m. We are very sorry for the inconvenience. However, after the power was cut off, we continued to monitor the situation.” The Kakao Talk PC/Mac version also failed to retrieve the conversation from the server and displays the phrase “Please try again in a moment” when the message window is turned on. A fire broke out at the SK C&C Pangyo Data Center located in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, causing an error in the service operated by Kakao, a tenant of the SK C&C data center. A fire broke out in the Kakao data center, causing outages across all Kakao services, including Kakao Messenger, Portal Daum, Kakao T (Mobility), Kakaoopage, and Kakao Pay.

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Data centre fire disrupts South Korean tech giants Kakao, Naver ... (Hindustan Times)

The fire broke out at around 3:30 p.m. local time at SK Inc. C&C's building in Pangyo, south of Seoul where several major software companies are based, ...

local time at SK Inc. The fire broke out at around 3:30 p.m. Kakao’s messenger service has about 53 million users globally, 89% of whom are in the domestic market, according to a filing in August.

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Fire knocks out services at South Korea tech giants Kakao, Naver (CNA)

SEOUL: A fire at a suburban data centre south of Seoul damaged servers of South Korea's major tech companies, Kakao and Naver on Saturday (Oct 15), ...

Safety precautious were preventing Kakao from resuming power supplies to its data centre, Yonhap news agency reported. The fire at SK C&C on Saturday afternoon affected the operations of companies including Kakao and Naver housed at the data centre in Pangyo, on Seoul's southern periphery, an SK official said. SEOUL: A fire at a suburban data centre south of Seoul damaged servers of South Korea's major tech companies, Kakao and Naver on Saturday (Oct 15), causing extensive disruption to the country's dominant messenger service and Internet portal.

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