A total of 47 public services, including a major government portal and the banking arm of the national postal service, were restored Monday following an outage caused by a fire at the state data management agency. As of 8:30 a.m., 47 of the 647 civil application services that were suspended in the wake of Friday's fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon, about 140 kilometers south of Seoul, were back online, according to the interior ministry. Interior Minister Yun Ho-jung said the restored services included GOV.KR, a major government portal for civil application services, and the banking arm of Korea Post, the national postal service. He also acknowledged public inconveniences will likely grow as a result of increased demand for civil application services after the weekend and instructed each ministry and local government to come up with ways to minimize disruptions. He instructed the government to do everything to restore the services quickly ahead of the Chuseok holiday, when demand for postal, delivery and financial services is high.