Following North Korea's latest missile launch on Wednesday, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) fell one-point-29 points, or zero-point-05 percent, to close the day at two-thousand-512-point-90.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ, however, gained eight-point-six points, or one-point-11 percent, making a slight recovery from a heavy sell-off on Tuesday. It closed the day at 781-point-72.
 
On the foreign exchange market, the value of the won strengthened seven-point-six won against the greenback, bringing the won-to-dollar exchange rate to the lowest in two years and seven months, at one-thousand-76-point-eight won.
 
The local currency gained immediately after the market opened despite the missile launch earlier in the day.