The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 54-point-eight points, or one-point-34 percent, on Monday to close at four-thousand-154-point-85.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ gained three-point-05 points, or zero-point-33 percent, to close at 927-point-79.

The South Korean won strengthened against the U.S. dollar by one-point-nine won, trading at one-thousand-466-point-nine won as of 3:30 p.m.