Yang Jae-hoon and Lee Ho-joon, Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo celebrate their victory in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay at the Asian Games at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Aquatic Sports Arena, Sept. 25. Yonhap

South Korea captured a historic gold medal in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay swimming at the Asian Games in China on Monday.

The quartet of Yang Jae-hoon and Lee Ho-joon, Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo gave the country its first-ever relay gold medal in the Asian Games with a new continental record of 7:01.73.

For South Korea, the silver in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay in 1994 had been its best Asiad performance in relay swimming. (Yonhap)