The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) closed at its highest in two years and nine months on Monday on optimism over a COVID-19 vaccine. It rose 49-point-16 points, or one-point-97 percent, to end at two-thousand-543-point-03.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also rose, gaining eight-point-19 points, or zero-point-98 percent, to close at 847-point-33.
 
On the foreign exchange, the local currency strengthened six-point-three won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-109-point-three won.