Kakao apps hit with service outage due to fire at data center
![A person walks in Kakao Bank office. [NEWS1]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/10/16/a14b8178-0b26-4b80-bd72-dbaf3d5aebec.jpg)
A person walks in Kakao Bank office. [NEWS1]
Major Kakao services, including Kakao Talk, Kakao T and Kakao Bank, were down on Saturday due to a fire at a data center, the company said.
In a post on Twitter Saturday, Kakao said that repair work may continue well past midnight.
Kakao services continued to generate errors early Sunday morning.
The blaze broke out at around 3:33 p.m. at the SK C&C building in Pangyo, Gyeonggi, they said. The building houses data centers for Naver and Kakao.
![A Kakao Talk error notice [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/10/16/86b91588-7e88-46b8-9337-2f56eb385039.jpg)
A Kakao Talk error notice [SCREEN CAPTURE]
Service failures were also reported at Kakao Pay and Kakao Games.
Naver said partial disruptions were reported at its shopping services, including Shopping Live.
BY PARK EUN-JEE, YONHAP [park.eunjee@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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