The South Korean government’s central document storage system, known as “G Drive,” was reportedly destroyed in last week’s fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon, wiping out the work documents of nearly 191,000 civil servants.
According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Wednesday, G Drive was among the 96 systems confirmed to have been directly destroyed by Friday’s fire at the NIRS.
G Drive is a cloud-based repository where government employees have been advised to save all work-related documents since 2018, rather than on their computers. This system, allotted to nearly 191,000 government employees as of August, had never been backed up externally. The country has 750,000 public-sector officials nationwide.
“As the system was not backed up externally, all documents stored on the repository have been lost, and there is no way to bring back the lost documents,” Director General Lim Jeong-gyu of the Public Service Bureau said at Wednesday’s press conference.
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