The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index gained 20-point-24 points, or zero-point-49 percent, on Thursday to close at four-thousand-170-point-63.
 
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ rose eleven-point-86 points, or one-point-31 percent, to close at 918-point-37.
 
The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by two won, trading at one-thousand-467-point-seven won as of 3:30 p.m.