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The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index dipped 74-point-78 points, or one-point-24 percent, on Thursday to close at five-thousand-937-point-66.
The tech-heavy KOSDAQ lost 18-point-05 points, or two-point-34 percent, to close at 753-point-23.
The South Korean won strengthened against the U.S. dollar by zero-point-nine won, trading at one-thousand-336-point-eight won per dollar as of 3:30 p.m.