South Korea's benchmark index fell the most in nearly 11 months on Friday, hit by heavyweight Samsung Electronics which tumbled 6 per cent on jitters about its slowing smartphone growth.
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) ended down 1.8 per cent at 1,923.85 points, making its biggest daily per centage drop since July 23 last year.
Shares of Samsung Electronics, which account for about one-fifth of the KOSPI's value, ended down 6.2 per cent, sparked by brokerages' downgrades and marking their biggest daily per centage loss since August last year when the South Korean smartphone giant lost a US patent lawsuit to Apple Inc.
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