The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) climbed five-point-08 points, or zero-point-25 percent, on Tuesday, closing at two-thousand-19-point-63.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ, however, slipped one-point-64 points, or zero-point-23 percent, to 702-point-06.
 
On the foreign exchange market, the value of the local currency weakened three-point-two won against the U.S. dollar to one-thousand-151 won.