Korea Times Article:
“State Online Services, Networks Crippled After Data Center Fire”.
Posted to Paperslip on September 27th, 2025.
Article is in English — please click on the link above to be taken to the relevant article on Korea Times.
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Please note: As of now, the KAS website (which NCRC uses to process the requests of Adoptees) appears to be up. We don’t know how or if it will be affected by the data center fire in Korea.
For the link to the KAS website, please see:
NCRC / KAS Website Links
Ironically, the KAS site may have been spared because it is hosted on such an outdated platform (possibly from 2012) which may not have been affected by the recent data center fire.
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Please note that NCRC, which still uses the KAS website to process the requests of Adoptees, has issued a statement in Korean on their Facebook page:
Translation via ChaGPT:
"Due to a fire at the Daejeon Center of the National Information Resources Service, access to public websites operated by the government is expected to be unstable for the time being.
As a result, access to certain systems used by child welfare workers (such as those related to child abuse, adoption, crisis pregnancies, child protection, and the Hope Connection platform) is currently restricted.
Urgent updates related to these systems will also be provided
through the official social media channels of the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), so please refer to those as needed.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
We are doing our best to restore services and return to normal operations as soon as possible."