The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) lost 38-point-12 points, or zero-point-98 percent, on Thursday to close at three-thousand-845-point-56.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ fell seven-point-12 points, or zero-point-81 percent, to close at 872-point-03.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by nine-point-eight won to trade at one-thousand-439-point-six won as of 3:30 p.m.