Korea will try to reclaim its Asian women's handball supremacy at the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the national team head coach said Wednesday, with the host country Japan likely standing in the way. Women's handball made its Asian Games debut in 1990, and Korea has won seven of the nine gold medals awarded so far. However, at the previous Asian Games in 2023, Korea suffered a crushing, 29-19 defeat to Japan in the gold medal contest. Then, as the Asian championships in 2024, Japan got the better of Korea once again, this time coming away with a 25-24 victory in the final. Korea had won the previous six Asian titles, five of them at the expense of Japan. Lee Kye-chung, back as the bench boss after coaching Korea to gold at the 2018 Asian Games, said his team has what it takes to topple Japan this time. "After we lost so big to Japan last time, we are determined not to suffer the same fate this time," Lee said at the national team press conference at the Jincheon National Training Center in Jincheon, 85 kilometers south of Seoul. "We have a great balance of youthful energy and veter