to do just that, we're joining world business today's pauline sc -- chiou. paris is in negative territory by about three-quarters of a percent at the moment. here's what happened in the sessions here in asia as a result of the news of kim jong il passing away today. the kosbi ended today about 3.5%, the others also in negative territory. let's look at the timeline of what happened to the kospi today. the news of kim jong il's death came around lunchtime, and you can see the market there in seoul plunged dramatically, then picked up a little, came down and regained some footing later on in the session. i do want to take you to the currency charts here to give you a taste of what happened with the korean wan, if we can pull that up. the korean wan lost some ground after the news came out, and there was a big selloff here, as you can see. the selloff happened as this graph goes up, and it hit a high of 1179 close to 1:00 local time. the u.s. dollar gained strength as a result of this and it also gained against the euro and the yen throughout the session. intere