Government administrative network failure fully restored on 20th... ``Measures to prevent recurrence are necessary'' = South Korea

The Korean government's administrative network failure has returned to normal for the first time in 56 hours. The ``Government 24'' and ``Seol Local Government System'' services that experienced an outage around 8:40 a.m. on the 17th are affected.
They reopened on the 18th and 19th, respectively. The government's explanation is that the failure occurred due to an abnormality in some of the network equipment connected to Seol. However, the specifics of equipment failure
There is no clear answer as to the cause or why the backup system did not work, and it has been pointed out that there was a problem with the government's response system.
On the 20th, according to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (the Ministry corresponds to a ministry), the government's online administrative procedure portal site ``Government 24''
The ``City/Provincial Seol Administrative System,'' an administrative network exclusively for civil servants, was fully restored yesterday, three days and 56 hours after it was suspended. This is an unprecedented situation in which all administrative procedures services are suspended.
It was a situation. This morning, it was confirmed that various documents are being issued normally at some local governments in Seoul, both on-line and offline.
According to the government, the problem occurred during the update process for administrative network equipment. Access to Seol Local Government Information System
24 government sites were disrupted due to a problem with the L4 switch, which is connected to the GPKI authentication system and distributes traffic to multiple servers.
was. However, the exact cause of the failure has not been revealed to date. Experts point out that the government's explanation alone has limits in preventing a recurrence. Kachon (
Choi Kyung-jin, a professor at Gachon University's Faculty of Law, said, ``Normally, when a problem occurs in a system, it occurs due to unusual work being done, but it still took several days for the cause to be announced.
``It will take several days to recover and respond, and the response overall is inadequate.'' There has also been criticism that the emergency response system was activated late. national information resources
Although the Administrative Authority has periodically conducted mock response drills in preparation for failures in the national information network and communications infrastructure, it was unable to respond to the current failure.
Meanwhile, on the 20th, when administrative network services were resumed, the Ministry of Administrative Security announced that it would be actively responding to the possibility that administrative procedures would be concentrated and failures would reoccur.
It's a needle. The government has also decided to send an official letter to local governments instructing them to apply the law retroactively in related matters to prevent personal injury caused by the documents that could not be issued on the 17th.