![]() "We will increase infrastructure investment so we can be prepared for shutdown of a data centre or two." "We did not prepare for a complete shutdown of an entire data centre," Hong said at a press briefing, adding that previous emergency drills had mostly involved contingencies for surges in traffic. The two apologised for the outage that started on Saturday due to a fire at a data centre run by SK C&C (034730.KS) near Seoul, which cut off power to 32,000 servers, or about 30% of Kakao's total. Namkoong's resignation comes only seven months after he took the top job and leaves co-CEO Hong Euntaek, appointed in July, as sole CEO. The company has pledged to increase investment to ensure continuity at the data centres it uses amid growing concern about the app's market dominance in Asia's fourth-largest economy. ![]() ![]() SEOUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Kakao Corp's (035720.KS) co-CEO Namkoong Whon resigned on Wednesday as South Korea's largest mobile chat app sought to defuse public anger over a massive outage that left tens of millions without access to a wide range of services.
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