The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) lost 32-point-42 points, or zero-point-eight percent, on Tuesday to close at four-thousand-ten-point-41.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ gained zero-point-six points, or zero-point-07 percent, to close at 903-point-three.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by six won to trade at one-thousand-437-point-seven won as of 3:30 p.m.