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.
Kakao’s vice president, Yang Hyun-seo, said that 12,000 out of 32,000 servers had been restored as of Sunday. Kakao’s chat app, online payment unit, and gaming platform have yet to be fully restored….