KOSPI Tumbles Nearly 8% on Chip Sell-Off

[Economy] :
The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index plunged 655-point-32 points, or seven-point-89 percent, on Thursday to close at seven-thousand-648-point-09.

Investors selling semiconductor shares catalyzed the drop in the index as worries over surplus capacity grew, linked to reports that U.S. company ...

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