South Korean shares fell further on Wednesday. 

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) lost zero-point-80 points, or zero-point-04 percent, to close at one-thousand-948-point-24.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ dropped four-point-34 points, or zero-point-65 percent, finishing the day's trading at 664-point-08.

On the Seoul foreign exchange market, the value of the local currency weakened zero-point-seven won against the U.S. dollar, to close at one-thousand-179-point-three won.