Daejeon: A total of 112 online government services have been restored in the wake of an outage caused by last week’s fire at the state data management agency, the government said Thursday. As of 12 p.m., the restoration rate stood at 17.3 percent after 112 of the 647 services affected by Friday’s fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in Daejeon, about 140 kilometers south of Seoul, were brought back online, it said.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung stated that the government will make every effort to recover the services throughout the extended Chuseok holiday that begins Friday. “We are gravely aware that the current restoration rate falls short of the people’s expectations,” he said during a meeting of the government’s Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters. “The government has taken steps to dispatch civilian experts and research agency personnel to the site (of the fire) in order to fully mobilize personnel and funds and accelerate the restoration rate.”

Vice Interior Minister Kim Min-jae noted that officials were focusing on speeding up restoration efforts by replacing the uninterruptible power supply system at the NIRS and relocating equipment at the server room where the fire started. Meanwhile, police have launched a raid on the NIRS and three companies as part of their investigation into the cause of the blaze. Investigators began the search at 9 a.m. over suspicions of occupational negligence, a day after the police booked four individuals, including an NIRS on-site manager, on the same suspicions.

The fire originated after a lithium-ion battery exploded in a server room on the fifth floor of the NIRS and was completely extinguished by Saturday.