The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index gained 50-point-44 points, or zero-point-98 percent, on Thursday to close at five-thousand-221-point-25.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ climbed 30-point-89 points, or two-point-73 percent, to close at one-thousand-164-point-41.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by three-point-eight won, trading at one-thousand-426-point-three won as of 3:30 p.m.