South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke

858 terabytes is a big number for a household, but barely registers in the scale of datacenter storage, where entire ...

South Korean government learns it needs a backup the hard way - embarassing fail sees fire destroy over 850TB of data

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center in Daejeon, South Korea, has perfectly illustrated ...

858TB gone forever: South Korea's data center fire shows the cost of no backups

On September 26, technicians were relocating lithium-ion batteries in the NIRS data center. Forty minutes later, the batteries exploded, causing a blazing inferno ...
CBS News

South Korea is using fast food-style drive-thrus to test for coronavirus

In the U.S., Americans are used to picking up Whoppers and Big Macs using drive-thrus. In South Korea, you can now use a drive-thru to get tested for coronavirus. Inadequate coronavirus testing in the ...
Yonhap News Agency on MSN

(Yonhap Interview) S. Korea seeks mutual growth with UAE amid AI drive

South Korea aims to expand cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector as it ...
Business Insider

South Korea gave Kim Jong Un a blueprint for developing North Korea — but it could be his downfall

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a USB drive with a blueprint for connecting his country to the world when he met South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April. The blueprint had plans for ...
The Washington Post

Yes, North Korea could drive a wedge between the U.S. and South Korea

On Jan. 9, North and South Korea met for their first direct talks in two years. The talks focused on issues that aren’t especially contentious, including North Korea’s participation in the upcoming ...