The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) fell 13-point-72 points, or zero-point-42 percent on Thursday, to close at three-thousand-264-point-96.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ rose, however, gaining five-point-23 points, or zero-point-52 percent, to close at one-thousand-three-point-72, surpassing the one-thousand threshold for the first time in nearly two months.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency weakened 13-point-two won against the dollar, ending the day at one-thousand-130-point-four won.