Daejeon: Thirteen days after a fire broke out at a major state data center, 25.5 percent of the government's online services have been restored, authorities said Wednesday. As of noon, 165 out of a total of 647 online administrative services affected by last month's fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) in the central city of Daejeon had been brought back online.

According to Yonhap News Agency, among the restored services are the culture ministry's internal portal and the work support program of the Korea Customs Service. The government is accelerating efforts to restore the remaining services by transferring 96 systems destroyed in the fire to another national data center located in the southeastern city of Daegu.

The fire began when a lithium-ion battery exploded in a server room of the NIRS on Sept. 26 and was completely extinguished the following day. As a preemptive measure, the government shut down 647 online systems to protect data and infrastructure. Of the affected systems, 436 were public services and 211 were internal intranet systems used by government officials.