The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) lost point-92 point, or point-04 percent, on Wednesday. It ended the day at two-thousand-194-point-76.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also fell, losing one-point-63 points, or point-25 percent, to close at 648-point-95.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened two-point-six won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-168-point-eight won.