Kakao Data Center Fire Results In Mass Outages In South Korea And Its Online Games

A massive fire erupted at a data center in Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea this past weekend which housed servers owned by big-name Korean publisher Kakao Games. The fire and the loss of the servers particularly affected Moonlight Sculptor which went offline at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night and remained out of service for the better part of the next day.

Players are being compensated for the 15-hour downtime and subsequent extended maintenance downtimes with a bundle of arena tokens, buff elixirs, battlefield rewards, and guild attendance perks. Kakao also assured the community that no data was lost during the fire and that they’ll be working on implementing back up measures to prevent service disruptions in the future.

The data center fire, however, caused more serious problems for the company and its home country than service outages in its games. Kakao is one of South Korea’s biggest tech companies and the South Korean government is currently investigating the unprecedented server outage’s effects on communications, transportation, and finance and is blaming everything on the company. Kakao’s co-CEO has already resigned his post because of the incident and its CEO might be following suit. The company’s stock prices also took a huge hit and has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit to boot.