The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) declined 47-point-13 points, or one-point-76 percent on Thursday to close at two-thousand-628-point-62.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ inched down eight-point-97 points, or one-point-04 percent, to close at 853-point-26.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened five-point-eight won against the U.S. dollar, closing at one-thousand-375 won.