Seoul: A total of 47 public services, including a major government portal and the banking arm of the national postal service, were restored Monday following an outage caused by a fire at the state data management agency.

As of 8:30 a.m., 47 of the 647 civil application services that were suspended in the wake of Friday’s fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon, about 140 kilometers south of Seoul, were back online, according to the interior ministry.

The government has said it is prioritizing the restoration of services directly affecting people’s safety and economic activities, but the slow normalization process is expected to delay many administrative procedures when local government offices reopen Monday after the weekend.

Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung s

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