Fueled by foreign investor purchases, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) reached a fresh high just a day after it broke the psychologically important three-thousand points. 

The main bourse rose 120-point-50 points, or three-point-97 percent, on Friday to close the week at three-thousand-152-point-18.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ fell however, losing one-point-07 points, or zero-point-11 percent, to close at 987-point-79.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened two-point-five won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-89-point-eight won.