The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) fell 22-point-74 points, or zero-point-63 percent, on Tuesday to close at three-thousand-561-point-81.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ lost 12-point-53 points, or one-point-46 percent, to close at 847-point-96.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by five-point-two won to trade at one-thousand-431 won as of 3:30 p.m.