South Korea’s Vaccine Pass System Crashes for Second Straight Day

It looks like South Korea’s vaccine pass system is having some early struggles:

The government’s digital vaccine pass system malfunctioned for the second day on Tuesday, leading to a number of access failures during lunch time despite the addition of emergency servers to deal with heavy user traffic.

COOV, a government smartphone application that authenticates users’ vaccination status by QR codes, along with affiliated third party programs, such as Naver and Kakao talk, has been plagued with major connection issues since Monday, the first day of the government’s vaccine pass enforcement, as a result of heavy traffic.

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said it added emergency servers to the system overnight to deal with increased traffic, but many workers and restaurants in Seoul’s office-heavy districts continued to experience outages for the second day around lunch time.

Yonhap

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