The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) rose 27-point-71 points, or one-point-05 percent on Friday to close at two-thousand-656-point-33.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ climbed three-point-56 points, or zero-point-42 percent, to close at 856-point-82.

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