KOSPI skids 6% after circuit breaker, clinging to 5,000 level
South Korea's benchmark KOSPI plunged more than 8% during trading Friday, briefly falling below the 5,000-point mark before recovering some of its losses to close above 5,050. Foreign investors sold more than 2.7 trillion won worth of shares on a net basis amid a sharp sell-off in U.S. technology stocks, with semiconductor heavyweights Samsung Electronics an..