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by Martyn Williams |  |
(IDG) -- South Korea, like most countries, managed to sail into the new year relatively free of problems caused by Year 2000-related computer glitches, but one problem hit the heating system of an apartment complex and forced residents to shiver their way into 2000.
The problem hit thermostats used to control a common heating system in an apartment complex in Pyongchon, Kyonggi province, according to Korean media reports monitored in Tokyo.
The thermostats failed at midnight and were offline until 7 p.m. on Saturday evening when engineers switched the system to manual control, said the reports.
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Elsewhere in the nation, local media said two hospitals in Kyonggi province reported failures of a computer-controlled bone marrow measurer and patient registration system. The latter failure caused a newborn baby to be registered with a 1900 birth date.
In a report to the International Y2K Cooperation Center in Washington, the Korean Government reported no major Year 2000-related outages in the first two days of the year.
RELATED SITES:
Korea's National Computerization Agency Y2K site
TheKorea Herald on the WebNote: Pages will open in a new browser window