Taekwondo at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Gudeok Gymnasium
Dates	10–13 October 2002
Competitors	219 from 35 nations
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Taekwondo took place from October 10 to October 13 at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. Men's and women's competitions held in eight weight categories for each. All competition took place at the Gudeok Gymnasium. Each country except the host nation was limited to having 6 men and 6 women.

Schedule

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−54 kg) details	Park Hee-chul  South Korea	Chu Mu-yen  Chinese Taipei	Muhammad Dalam Imam  Indonesia
			Akram Al-Noor  Yemen
Flyweight (−58 kg) details	Kim Dae-ryung  South Korea	Behzad Khodadad  Iran	Surendra Bhandari  India
			Tshomlee Go  Philippines
Bantamweight (−62 kg) details	Huang Chih-hsiung  Chinese Taipei	Kim Hyang-soo  South Korea	Ali Al-Asmar  Jordan
			Ghali Al-Matrafi  Saudi Arabia
Featherweight (−67 kg) details	Nam Yeon-sik  South Korea	Sung Yu-chi  Chinese Taipei	Pavel Yugay  Uzbekistan
			Deepak Bista  Nepal
Lightweight (−72 kg) details	Hadi Saei  Iran	Lee Jae-shin  South Korea	Yesbol Yerden  Kazakhstan
			Iyad Al-Saify  Jordan
Welterweight (−78 kg) details	Oh Seon-taek  South Korea	Đinh Vương Duy  Vietnam	Majid Aflaki  Iran
			Liu Yang  China
Middleweight (−84 kg) details	Kim Kyong-hun  South Korea	Phan Tấn Đạt  Vietnam	Dindo Simpao  Philippines
			Arman Chilmanov  Kazakhstan
Heavyweight (+84 kg) details	Moon Dae-sung  South Korea	Nguyễn Văn Hùng  Vietnam	Abdulqader Al-Adhami  Qatar
			Ahmad Al-Attar  Kuwait

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Finweight (−47 kg) details	Chen Shih-hsin  Chinese Taipei	Nguyễn Thị Huyền Diệu  Vietnam	Wang Ying  China
			Kang Ji-hyun  South Korea
Flyweight (−51 kg) details	Lim Su-jeong  South Korea	Yaowapa Boorapolchai  Thailand	Juana Wangsa Putri  Indonesia
			Daleen Cordero  Philippines
Bantamweight (−55 kg) details	Yun Kyung-rim  South Korea	Chonnapas Premwaew  Thailand	Parvaneh Tehrani  Iran
			Renuka Magar  Nepal
Featherweight (−59 kg) details	Yun Sung-hee  South Korea	Tseng Pei-hua  Chinese Taipei	Lê Thị Nhung  Vietnam
			Wang Shuo  China
Lightweight (−63 kg) details	Kim Yeon-ji  South Korea	Liu Lin  China	Lee Pei Fen  Malaysia
			Ritu Jimee Rai  Nepal
Welterweight (−67 kg) details	Kim Su-ok  South Korea	Chang Wan-chen  Chinese Taipei	Luo Wei  China
			Veronica Domingo  Philippines
Middleweight (−72 kg) details	Choi Jin-mi  South Korea	Chen Zhong  China	Roia Zamani  Afghanistan
			Sally Solis  Philippines
Heavyweight (+72 kg) details	Wang I-hsien  Chinese Taipei	Youn Hyun-jung  South Korea	Lee Wan Yuen  Malaysia
			Ren Ruihong  China

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	12	3	1	16
2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	4	0	7
3	Iran (IRI)	1	1	2	4
4	Vietnam (VIE)	0	4	1	5
5	China (CHN)	0	2	5	7
6	Thailand (THA)	0	2	0	2
7	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	5	5
8	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	3	3
9	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	2	2
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	2	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	2	2
13	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

A total of 219 athletes from 35 nations competed in taekwondo at the 2002 Asian Games: