Data from the Financial Supervisory Service on Tuesday showed that foreign investors remained net buyers of South Korean stocks for the fourth straight month in February.

Foreign investors bought up a net seven-point-375 trillion or over five-point-six billion U.S. dollars worth of domestic shares last month, up from its net purchase of three-point-14 trillion won from the previous month.

Of the total, foreign investors made net purchases of seven-point-276 trillion won from the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) and 100 billion won from the tech-heavy KOSDAQ.

By country, investors from the United Kingdom were the biggest net buyers at three-point-six trillion won, followed by the United States at two-point-eight trillion won.

As of the end of last month, the balance of foreigners' holdings of domestic listed stocks stood at 762 trillion won, or 28-point-one percent of the market capitalization.