The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) rose 70-point-74 points, or one-point-76 percent, on Wednesday to close at four-thousand-81-point-15.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ lost one-point-71 points, or zero-point-19 percent, to close at 901-point-59.

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