The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index gained 41-point-37 points, or one-point-04 percent, on Wednesday to close at four-thousand-36-point-30.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ rose three-point-59 points, or zero-point-39 percent, to close at 932-point-01.

The South Korean won strengthened against the U.S. dollar by zero-point-four won, trading at one-thousand-468 won as of 3:30 p.m.