The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 83-point-02 points, or one-point-57 percent, on Wednesday to close at five-thousand-371-point-10.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also climbed five-point-10 points, or zero-point-45 percent, to close at one-thousand-149-point-43.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by four-point-eight won, trading at one-thousand-450-point-two won as of 3:30 p.m.