Park Jong Woo, Shin Seung Hyeon, Kim Jun Yung, Kang Hee Won and Hong Hae Sol of Korea rolled games of 1071, 1113 and 1052 on long oil to take the lead in the prestigious five-player Team event in the 23rd Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships with 3236 pinfall total and an average of 215.73.

From top left clockwise - Kang, Shin, Kim, Choi, Hong and Park. Click image for larger view. Photos courtesy of TTBA.

Kim led the team with 720 and was followed by Shin (677), Park (632), Kang (607) and Hong (600) while the sixth Korean player, five-time World Champion Choi Bok Eum, bowled his three games in the so-called 'make-up' teams.

Trailing the Koreans by mere 11 pins to sit in second place were Surasak Manuwong, Phumin Klanbida, Atittarat Cheng, Annop Arromsaranon and Yannaphon Larpapharat of Thailand (left), who rebounded from a slow start (978) with games of 1126 and 1121 for 3225 total and an average of 215.

Rafiq Ismail, Timmy Tan, Johnathan Chan, Nur Aiman and Ahmad Muaz of Malaysia (right) currently hold the bronze medal spot with 3193 including three games between 1024 and 1104.

Hussain Al-Suwaidi, Hareb Al-Mansoori, Mahmood Al-Attar, Shaker Al-Hassan and Naif Oqab of the United Arab Emirates (left) were just 17 pins outside the top 3 with 3176 as the Arabs closed out her series with a huge 1191 game, the highest game of the day.

Tomoyuki Sasaki, Takuya Miyazawa, Kenta Yoshida, Yuhi Shinbata and Yusuke Yamamoto of Japan (right) led the field from 20 countries after the first (117) and the second game (1084) but slipped to fifth place due to a final 955 game with 3156 total and an average of 210.40. Sasaki was the best individual player posting a 739 series (246.33 average).

Shin Seung Hyeon used his 677 series to leap from fourth to first place in All-Events (combined scores in Singles, Doubles, Trios and Teams). The Korean leads the 125-player field from 22 countries after 21 of 24 games with 4786 total and an average of 227.90.

Asian Games All-Events champion Park Jong Woo was just 16 pins behind to stay in second place with 4770 (227.14). Previous leader Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia slipped to third place with 4750 (226.19) with Hong Hae Sol fourth at 4729 (225.19).

Naif Oqab had a 727 series today to jump from 10th to fifth place with 4696 (223.62), just 54 pins off the pace for the medals.

With three more games in the Team event to go, World Championships All-Events gold medalist Choi Bok Eum and Salem Al-Hajras, Kuwait, are tied for 16th and last place to advance to the Masters finals with 4548 (216.57).

The men are done for today and will return Saturday morning for the second block on medium oil. The women will bowl their first block this afternoon and the second block tomorrow afternoon.

The Team event also decides the medals in All-Events. The top 16 men and 16 women in All-Events advance to the Masters competition which will conclude the Championships on Sunday and Monday.