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Microsoft outage hits Korea, services restored

A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services for over 24 hours this week, affecting businesses and governments worldwide, the Korea Times reports. Microsoft apologized on Friday and said services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and other products by Saturday, ending the outage. In Korea, the outage disrupted operations at major companies, leaving some employees unable to access emails, coordinate with business partners and manage daily workflows, the Korea Times reported on Friday. The ICT ministry said Saturday it will inspect disruptions to domestic companies' operations following the outage, Yonhap reports. Korean Air said Saturday that US-bound flights had resumed after the US lifted a nationwide ground stop prompted by a separate telecommunications outage, KBS World reports.

  1. Microsoft 'deeply sorry' as outage triggers global chaos Korea Times · 2026-11-14
  2. Microsoft reports progress in reviving email and other services during global outage Korea Times · 2026-11-14
  3. Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after global outage Korea Times · 2026-11-14
  4. Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for businesses and governments Korea Times · 2026-11-13
  5. Hourslong Microsoft outage disrupts Korean companies' daily operations Korea Times · 2026-11-13
  6. ICT ministry to inspect domestic disruptions after Microsoft services outage Yonhap · 2026-11-14
  7. US-Bound Flights Resume after Emergency Ground Stop Lifted KBS World · 2026-11-14

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