Seoul, Sep 28 (IANS) South Korea’s Interior Ministry said Sunday it has begun gradually resuming operations of the administrative computer network after a fire caused by a battery explosion crippled the system, although a full restoration is widely anticipated to take around two weeks.

The fire broke out at the National Information Resources Service in the central city of Daejeon on Friday after a lithium-ion battery exploded in a computer room on the fifth floor.

As of 7 a.m., the government had restored more than 50 per cent of network devices at the centre, according to the ministry.

Of the 767 key security-related devices, 99 per cent had begun functioning again, it said.

The ministry said it will gradually begin running 551 computer systems that were not directly affected by the f

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