SEOUL (Reuters) - Shares in top South Korean tech names fell on Monday as investors responded to Friday's warning by top handset maker Nokia Oyj about weakness in the world's mobile phone market next year. Shares in Samsung Electronics , which trails Nokia in the handset market, fell 3.12 percent to 450,500 won and world No. 5 LG Electronics Inc lost 4.76 percent to 76,000 won after falling as much as 7.5 percent, underperforming the wider market's 0.91 percent fall. The Nokia waves were felt in Taiwan where smartphone maker HTC Corp fell by 5.82 percent, underperforming the benchmark TAIEX share index , which dropped 0.29 percent. Taiwanese cellphone component makers fell, with shares in Largan Precision , which makes the lenses used in many camera-enabled cellphones, and Unimicron , which makes printed circuit boards, both...
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