The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) on Friday slipped four-point-seven points, or zero-point-23 percent, to close the week at two-thousand-19-point-42.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ slumped eight-point-four points, or one-point-three percent, to 640-point-17.
 
On the foreign exchange market, the value of the local currency weakened two-point-four won against the U.S. dollar to one-thousand-144-point-nine won.