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According to a report by Yonhap News Agency on the 19th, the company's co-CEO (co-CEO) Nan Gongxun resigned on the morning of the 19th, after a few days of service interruption due to a fire in the data center of the South Korean Internet company Kakao.

South Korean Internet company Kakao co-CEO Nan Gongxun data map from Korean media

　　According to the report, Kakao issued an announcement on the 19th to explain the personnel changes of the above-mentioned executive executives. At the same time, Kakao also stated that as of 6:00 a.m. that day, the main functions of Kakao mail, chat tool Kakao Talk and online payment application Kakao Pay, which were interrupted by the fire due to the fire, have all returned to normal. Kakao said that the company took into account the importance of the mail service and was the first to repair the mail system. However, due to factors such as the huge amount of data and the particularity of the equipment, the repair work was delayed, but fortunately there was no data loss.

　　According to previous reports, a fire broke out in the C&C Banqiao data center of SK company in South Korea on the 15th, causing the interruption of corporate servers including Kakao, NAVER, SK Telecom and other companies that settled in the center. interrupt. The incident caused the paralysis of Kakao's network services, and also triggered a dispute over the monopoly of industry operations. More than 4 hours after the accident, the Kakao service has not been restored or is in an unstable state, causing inconvenience to users and even loss of money.

　　South Korean President Yin Xiyue apologized to the public for the interruption of Kakao Talk's network service on the 16th, and asked relevant departments to find out the cause of the accident and formulate accident prevention measures to prevent such accidents from happening again. A day later, Yin Xiyue once again expressed her position on the matter, saying, "The vast majority of citizens felt inconvenienced by the interruption of Kakao services last weekend. Although the communication network service is operated by private enterprises, in the eyes of the public, this is incompatible with the national basic communication network. no difference". Yin Xiyue also said that in order to safeguard national interests, the state needs to intervene in market monopoly behavior.

　　South Korea's "Asian Economy" reported on the 18th that the fire caused the paralysis of Kakao's services, etc., and the loss to Kakao's business is estimated to reach 20 billion won (about 100 million yuan), including payment to affected users. The amount of compensation for Kakao is expected to be even greater. But the Korean media is more worried that the "super platform" operator Kakao, which has a wide impact on national life, has been paralyzed, exposing the true face of "Internet power" South Korea.