The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) on Thursday rose two-point-57 points, or zero-point-13 percent, to close at one-thousand-973-point-89.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ climbed two-point-88 points, or zero-point-41 percent, to 696-point-91.

On the foreign exchange market, the local currency appreciated four-point-seven won against the U.S. dollar to one-thousand-151-point-four won.