JINCHEON — Korean modern pentathletes said Thursday they will try to win the country's very first gold medal of this year's Asian Games in Japan. All four gold medals in the sport — in the men's and women's individual and team events — will be awarded Sept. 20, the first day of the medal race at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with the preliminary action set to commence Sept. 16, three days before the opening ceremony. Korea will send four male and four female athletes: Jun Woong-tae, Seo Chang-wan, Lee Jong-hyun and Kim Young-ha for men; and Seong Seung-min, Shin Sumin, Jang Ha-eun and Kim Yu-ri for women. Jun, the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist, won both the individual and team titles at the previous Asian Games in 2023. "My teammates all have such determined looks in their eyes. I can see that they are ready to show everything they have at this competition," said Jun, the team's captain, during a joint national team press conference at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, 85 kilometers south of Seoul. "We will try to come home with all four gold medals from the men's a