The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index lost 40-point-48 points, or zero-point-81 percent, on Monday to close at four-thousand-949-point-59.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ climbed 70-point-48 points, or seven-point-09 percent, to close at one-thousand-64-point-41.
 
The South Korean won strengthened against the U.S. dollar by 25-point-two won, trading at one-thousand-440-point-six won as of 3:30 p.m.