South Korean stocks experienced a sharp decline of nearly 8% on Thursday, hitting their lowest point in over three weeks. This downturn was primarily driven by a global selloff in chipmakers, triggered by Meta Platforms' plans to offer computing power, sparking concerns about AI capacity. The Korean won also weakened against the dollar, while bond yields saw an increase.

South Korean markets saw a mixed close Monday as chipmakers recovered from initial sharp declines following a massive $576 billion AI and data centre investment announcement.…

South Korea's benchmark Kospi fell below the 8,000-point threshold during trading on Thursday, tracking an overnight sell-off in US technology stocks as investo