The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) inched up on Monday, gaining point-33 point, or point-02 percent. It closed the day at two-thousand-124-point-61. 

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ fell, losing point-72 point, or point-10 percent, to close at 695-point-62.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened six-point-two won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-128-point-one won.