From left, Chang Kap-seok, head coach of the national shooting team, shooters So Seung-seob, Lee Bo-na, Oh Ye-jin, Yang Ji-in and Ban Hyo-jin attend a media day at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, North Chungcheong Province, Monday. Yonhap
Riding a wave of recent success, the Korean national shooting team will take aim at bringing home five gold medals from the upcoming Asian Games in Japan, the squad's head coach said Monday.
Chang Kap-seok, in charge of the shooting delegation, unveiled his team's goal during the media day at the Jincheon National Team Training Center in Jincheon, some 85 kilometers south of Seoul.
Chang oversaw Korea's unexpected surge at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the country captured three gold medals and six medals overall, both of them the second-highest total behind China. At the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Korea captured 14 medals, ranking third behind China and India.
"We will try to make our country proud," Chang said. "Our objective is to win five gold medals, nine silver medals and five bronze medals. We will demonstrate once again how far Korean shooting has come along."
