The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) fell 33-point-95 points, or one-point-06 percent on Wednesday, to close at three-thousand-181-point-47.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ also fell, losing 22-point-74 points, or two-point-23 percent, to close at 998-point-27. 

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened two-point-six won against the dollar, ending the session at one-thousand-113 won.