The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) slumped on Tuesday, retreating 17-point-57 points, or zero-point-nine percent, to close at one-thousand-937-point-68.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ edged down three-point-29 points, or zero-point-48 percent, to 687-point-71.

On the foreign exchange market, the value of the local currency weakened nine-point-eight won against the greenback to one-thousand-192-point-seven won.