South Korean stocks surpassed the three-thousand-point mark for the first time on Wednesday soon after trading began. 

The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) hit three-thousand-one-point-29 at 9:02 a.m. Wednesday, up ten-point-72 points, or point-36 percent, from the previous day.

The index topped the three-thousand mark 13 years and five months after it first surpassed the two-thousand mark on July 25, 2007.