Seoul’s Circuit Breaker, a Jobs Shock and Iran’s Missiles: How Three Crises Crashed Asian Markets in a Single Day (opens in new tab)

South Korea's KOSPI plunged 8.29 percent and tripped its circuit breaker on Monday as three simultaneous shocks — Iran's missile strike on Israel, Broadcom's AI guidance miss, and a blowout US jobs report — converged to deliver Asian markets their worst day in months.