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G-Drive Data Lost in National Information Resources Management Institute Fire… All Central Government Work Files Gone.

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“National General News
[Exclusive] G-Drive Data Lost in National Information Resources Management Institute Fire… All Central Government Work Files Gone
Service started in 2017… Even backup data destroyed
By Hyunjung Park
Updated: 2025-10-01 17:17 | Published: 2025-10-01 13:37

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On October 1, a notice about partial suspension of the administrative information system was posted at a community service center in Seoul, as the government continues restoration efforts after administrative services were crippled by a fire at the National Information Resources Management Institute (NIRM) on September 26. (Yonhap News)

Due to the fire at the Daejeon headquarters of the National Information Resources Management Institute (NIRM), all data stored on the government’s cloud service “G-Drive,” used by public officials, has been lost. G-Drive is a cloud service that allows central government employees to store policy and work-related materials in place of using local PCs. The system providing this service was one of 96 systems destroyed in the fire.

According to officials from NIRM and the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on October 1, not only was the G-Drive system—located in the 5th floor Room 7-1 data center—damaged in the fire, but all separately stored backup data was also lost.

An NIRM official stated, “The data volume was as large as 858 terabytes (TB), and backing it up to a different location would have taken over a month, so in order to avoid service disruption, the backup data was stored in the same data center where the fire occurred.”

G-Drive has been in service since 2017. Some government agencies, such as the Ministry of Personnel Management, store their policy and work documents on G-Drive instead of local PCs.

According to documents published by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety when the service was launched in 2017, the G-Drive was intended to help public officials “systematically store, manage, and share policy and work data,” and “support smart, efficient public administration.”

Reporter: Hyunjung Park (saram@hani.co.kr)