The recent "Black Friday" for the Korean stock market brought a frantic mixture of a circuit breaker and sell-side sidecars as the main bourse fell more than 6 percent. Benchmark KOSPI heavyweights SK hynix and Samsung Electronics also took a hit, with their shares falling 10.44 percent and 6.35 percent, respectively, as investors sold in panic, driving the index below 5,000. Meanwhile, U.S. indexes that had risen immediately after last week's midterm elections also fell. Investors and policymakers woke up to a changed economic climate, triggered by a shift in the U.S. political landscape. Any optimism that last week's U.S. midterm elections had reaffirmed the country’s democratic values was tempered by concerns over the Democrats’ agenda to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and restrict data center construction. A deeper concern is that these policy shifts come amid growing skepticism over whether the AI boom is actually a bubble and whether massive investments in the sector will ultimately generate profits. Other Asian stock markets, including Taiwan's, also declined Friday, bu