The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) inched up on Tuesday.

The main index rose nearly seven-point-eight points, or zero-point-four percent, to close at around two-thousand-50. 

The tech-laden KOSDAQ slipped point-eight-points, or one-point-one percent, to close at 687.

On the Seoul foreign exchange market, the value of the South Korean won rose ten-point-nine won against the greenback to one-thousand-116 won.