South Korea's bourse operator on Friday activated a circuit breaker for the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index on an extended sell-off in tech shares.
Trading of KOSPI-listed shares was halted for 20 minutes from 9:03, as the index plunged more than 8 percent from the previous session's close.
The benchmark index came under heavy selling pressure following a tech rout on Wall Street, triggered by concerns that Democrats' sweeping victory in the US midterms could slow down the pace of the build out of artificial intelligence data centers.
It marked the tenth time this year that the KRX has activated a circuit breaker. (Yonhap)
