The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) gained 30-point-75 points, or one-point-33 percent, on Thursday. It ended the day at a new high for the year of two-thousand-342-point-61.

This is the third straight day the KOSPI has ended with a new high.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also rose, gaining six-point-84 points, or point-81 percent, to close at 854-point-12. 

On the foreign exchange, the local currency strengthened five-point-three won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-183-point-five won.