The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) slid 85-point-06 points, or two-point-45 percent, on Friday to close at three-thousand-386-point-05.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ lost 17-point-29 points, or two-point-03 percent, to close at 835-point-19.

The South Korean won weakened by eleven-point-eight won against the U.S dollar to trade at one-thousand-412-point-four won as of 3:30 p.m.