The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index lost 60-point-32 points, or one-point-51 percent, on Friday to close at three-thousand-926-point-59.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ gained 32-point-61 points, or three-point-71 percent, to close at 912-point-67.

The South Korean won weakened against the U.S. dollar by five-point-seven won, trading at one-thousand-470-point-six won as of 3:30 p.m.