The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that it has completed the comprehensive reclassification of 15,033 public information systems, a project that has been underway since April of this year.

This reclassification work was pursued to fundamentally resolve issues highlighted during the National Information Resources Service fire in September of last year, where systems experienced delayed restoration despite having a significant impact on citizens' daily lives because they were assigned low grades due to a small number of users.

The grading system was overhauled from A1 to A4 stages, focusing on service importance from the public's perspective rather than by agency or user count, and a comprehensive reclassification was conducted for all public information systems.

Looking at the breakdown by grade, A1 systems account for 73 (0.5%), A2 systems 157 (1.0%), A3 systems 671 (4.5%), and A4 systems 14,132 (94.0%).

The Information System Grading Review Committee upgraded information systems directly tied to public life, safety, and daily routines based on applications submitted by each agency, while lowering grades for systems that were requested higher than their actual importance warranted.

Among the 73 National Core (A1) grade systems, public safety accounted for the highest proportion with 22, followed by customs administration with 15, fiscal finance with 11, health and welfare with 11, administrative infrastructure with 8, and land and transportation with 6.

Major information systems finalized as A1 and other grades include services directly connected to public life and national functions, such as the 112 emergency system, forest fire situation monitoring system, Gov24, resident registration system, and import-export customs clearance systems.

Koo Hyun-mo, chairperson of the Information System Grading Review Committee, stated, "Through meticulous reviews across five subcommittees, we carefully evaluated each and every one of the 15,033 information systems from the perspective of their impact on the public's daily lives," adding, "We expect that effective disaster recovery systems will be properly established in line with these finalized grades."

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