The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) inched down 60-point-8 points, or two-point-28 percent on Tuesday to close at two-thousand-609-point-63.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ slid 19-point-61 points, or two-point-three percent, to close at 832-point-81.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened ten-point-five won against the U.S. dollar, closing at one-thousand-394-point-five won.