Roaring While Pointing at the Taegeukgi on Their Forearms... Defending the Pride of 'World's Best'

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Our Asian Games special 8 O'Clock News begins with news of our national team's gold medals. Archery has produced gold medals for two consecutive days. Although a sweep of all recurve events was thwarted by fierce challenges from competing nations, the men's national team defended the pride of being the world's best by winning the team event for the second consecutive time.

Reporting from the scene, Jeon Yeongmin.

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The recurve team's goal of sweeping all events went off track from the beginning.

The women's national team, which had defended the Asian Games summit for 28 years, suffered the shock of being caught by India in the team final, dashing their hopes for an eighth consecutive title, and in the mixed team event, they lost to China in the semifinals and had to settle for a bronze medal.

Facing a crisis of leaving the team events without a single gold medal for the first time in 48 years since the Bangkok Asian Games in 1978, when archery became an official event,

[Republic of Korea!]

Kim Woojin, Lee Wooseok, and Kim Je-deok, who teamed up to win the men's team gold medal at the Paris Olympics, defended the pride of Korean archery.

After thoroughly defeating Taiwan by taking three consecutive sets in the semifinals, they grabbed the lead in the second set of the final against India, where a tight balance was continuing, by hitting all of their first three arrows right into the center of the target.

The demoralized Indian team committed a fatal mistake by shooting their fourth arrow into the 7-ring in the third set, and Kim Woojin clinched the victory by planting the final arrow into the 9-ring, where an 8 or higher would secure the win.

The players, who completed the men's team victory for the second straight Asian Games, roared while pointing at the Taegeukgi (South Korean flag) on their forearms,

[Fighting!]

and basked in their joy by standing on the highest step of the podium with a celebration signifying their consecutive titles.

[Kim Woojin / Archery Recurve National Team Athlete: Because we have continuously achieved good results and only won in international competitions, there was a lot of pressure heading into this year's Asian Games. I feel like I've finally shaken it all off.]

Having defended its pride with the men's team gold medal, Korean archery now aims for joint gold medals in the final men's and women's individual events tomorrow (Oct. 3).

(Video by Kim Se-kyung | Video Editing by Hwang Ji-young | Graphics by Kang Yoon-jung)
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