The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 76-point-57 points, or one-point-84 percent, on Monday to close at four-thousand-90-point-59.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ gained one-point-49 points, or zero-point-16 percent, to close at 938-point-83.

The South Korean won strengthened against the U.S. dollar by two-point-seven won, trading at one-thousand-471 won as of 3:30 p.m.