KT 화재로 인한 복구작업 진행... 정부차원 후속대책 논의<br /><br />Over the weekend, a building in Seoul... owned by telecom company KT Corporation caught fire, leading to property losses and causing service disruptions for millions of its users.<br />Efforts to restore the damaged networks are still ongoing.<br />Today, the ICT ministry promised to introduce safeguard measures before the year is up.<br />For details let's turn to our Yoon Jung-min. <br />A fire on Saturday at a KT building in Seoul's Ahyeon neighborhood damaged its communications network in much of the capital... paralyzing mobile phone and internet services, as well as credit card transaction systems.<br />The incident affected millions of KT subscribers and businesses using its lines.<br />No casualties have been reported, but the fire caused property losses worth nearly 7 million U.S. dollars.<br />The mobile carrier apologized for the inconvenience and has been repairing the damaged infrastructure around the clock. <br />As of Monday afternoon, some 98 percent of its internet lines and more than 80 percent of mobile network had been restored.<br />It is also preparing compensation measures... including refunds on their customers' monthly bills.<br />On Monday, the Minister of Science and ICT Yoo Young-min convened an emergency meeting with the country's three major communications providers... namely KT, SKT and LG U-plus... to discuss follow-up measures and ways to minimize service disruptions in the future.<br />"The government and telecoms should strengthen safety measures and establish a back-up system for the tunnels in case of fires and other disasters. We should actively work together to put such a system in place."<br />Yoo promised to conduct thorough inspections of cable tunnels across the nation,... and also apologized for the shortcomings in the government's response.<br />Meanwhile, safety authorities have been investigating the causes of the fire that broke out over the weekend. The National Forensic Service also joined the probe on Monday.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News. <br />
