Chennai: India went down 1-3 to South Korea 1-3 in their first match of the fifth Asian Youth Boys volleyball championship in Tehran on Saturday.

Korea won the match 23-25, 25-23, 25-21, 25-23 after a marathon 95-minute duel.

India won the first set at 25-23 and then the Koreans won the next three. In the last three sets the Indians, who were leading initially, were forced to play second fiddle due to effective defensive play by the Koreans, according to a press release from Volleyball Federation of India here Saturday.