Closing figures are displayed at a KB Kookmin Bank trading room in Seoul on Tuesday after the Kospi briefly fell below 6,000. The Kospi closed at 6,023.66, down 732.09 points, or 10.84%, while the Kosdaq ended at 705.85, down 59.01 points, or 7.72%. The won closed at 1,462.50 against the U.S. dollar. Photo by Asia Today
July 28 (Asia Today) -- South Korea temporarily halted trading on its main stock market Tuesday after the benchmark Kospi plunged more than 8%.
The Korea Exchange activated a circuit breaker at 10:13 a.m., suspending trading on the main KOSPI market for 20 minutes.
The circuit breaker is triggered when the Kospi falls at least 8% from the previous session and remains at that level for one minute.
The decline accelerated as major semiconductor stocks suffered steep losses.
