South Korea’s emergency market rescue: The KOSPI plunged more than 8% at one point during trading on November 6, triggering a 20-minute circuit breaker just three minutes after the opening and falling below 5,000 points to a roughly nine-month low. That day, the South Korean government held an emergency meeting and decided to suspend brokerage firms’ mandatory margin-liquidation rules for three months starting next Monday (November 9), in a bid to curb a chain reaction of selling. The KOSPI ultimately closed down 6.02% at 5,059.65 points, bringing its two-day decline to about 11% and leaving it roughly 44.5% below its record high in June. (Sources: AJP and Yonhap News Agency, November 6) In the same sell-off, triggered by concerns over AI regulation, $BTC also fell to a seven-week low of around $75,469.