Kakao apps hit with service outage due to fire at data center

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]

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]