The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index(KOSPI) remained largely flat, rising zero-point-19 points, or zero-point-01 percent, on Wednesday, to close the day at two-thousand-615-point-60.

The tech-heavy KOSDAQ gained ten-point-44 points, or one-point-two percent, to close at 880-point-72.

On the foreign exchange, the local currency strengthened four-point-three won against the U.S. dollar, closing the day at one-thousand-303-point-eight won.