The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index lost eleven-point-three points, or zero-point-27 percent, on Tuesday to close at four-thousand-143-point-55.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ rose three-point-56 points, or zero-point-38 percent, to close at 931-point-35.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by five-point-four won, trading at one-thousand-472-point-three won as of 3:30 p.m.