The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) managed to inch up on Tuesday, despite ten consecutive days of offloading by foreign investors.
 
The index added five-point-15 points, or zero-point-27 percent, to close at one-thousand-932-point-97.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ rose nine-point-41 points, or one-point-49 percent, to 639-point-78.
 
On the Seoul foreign exchange market, the value of the local currency appreciated one-point-four won against the greenback to close at one-thousand-183-point-four won.