# Volleyball at the 1978 Asian Games

Volleyball events were contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Cha Joo-hyun Chang Yoon-chang Chung Kang-sup Kang Doo-tae Kang Man-soo Kim Ho-chul Kim Kab-je Lee Hee-wan Lee In Moon Yong-kwan Park Ki-won Yoo Joong-tak | Japan Haruhiko Hanawa Shohei Iwatsuki Yoshio Kobayashi Takashi Maruyama Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Katsumi Oda Kenji Shimaoka Mikiyasu Tanaka Yoshinori Tanaka Shinichiro Tsujiai | China Chen Fulin Chen Gang Hou Jie Hu Jin Li Jianxin Wang Jiawei Wang Qingheng Xu Zhen Zheng Zongyuan Zhou Zhongyu |
| Women details | Japan Yumi Egami Yoshie Ishikawa Yoko Kawamata Kazuko Ogawa Keiko Okushima Kayoko Sudo Juri Yokoyama Terie Yuki | China Chen Zhaodi Han Xiaohua Lang Ping Li Wenxiu Qi Lixia Sun Jinfang Yang Xi Zhang Jieyun Zhang Rongfang Zhou Xiaolan | South Korea Baik Myung-sun Byon Kyung-ja Kim Ae-hee Kim Hwa-bok Kwak Sun-ok Kweon In-sook Lim Hae-sook Shim Soon-ok Shin Sang-sun Yang Soon-duk Yoon Young-nae Yu Kyung-hwa |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Results
### Men
#### Preliminary round
##### Pool A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | Qualification |
| 1 | Burma | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | MAX | Final round |
| 2 | Iraq | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3.000 | Final round |
| 3 | Thailand | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0.667 | Classification 7th–12th |
| 4 | Pakistan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 0.455 | Classification 7th–12th |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 0.250 | |
| Date | | Score | |
| 10 Dec | Thailand | 3–1 | Hong Kong |
| 10 Dec | Iraq | 3–0 | Pakistan |
| 11 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | Iraq |
| 11 Dec | Hong Kong | 0–3 | Burma |
| 12 Dec | Iraq | 0–3 | Burma |
| 12 Dec | Thailand | 3–2 | Pakistan |
| 13 Dec | Burma | 3–0 | Pakistan |
| 13 Dec | Iraq | 3–0 | Hong Kong |
| 14 Dec | Pakistan | 3–2 | Hong Kong |
| 14 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | Burma |

##### Pool B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR | Qualification |
| 1 | Japan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | MAX | Final round |
| 2 | Kuwait | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3.000 | Final round |
| 3 | Bangladesh | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0.857 | Classification 7th–12th |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | — | — | — | Classification 7th–12th |
| 5 | Nepal | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | |
| Date | | Score | |
| 10 Dec | Nepal | 0–3 | Kuwait |
| 10 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | Bangladesh |
| 11 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | Nepal |
| 11 Dec | Bangladesh | 3–1 | United Arab Emirates |
| 12 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | Kuwait |
| 12 Dec | United Arab Emirates | – | Nepal |
| 13 Dec | Kuwait | 3–0 | United Arab Emirates |
| 13 Dec | Bangladesh | 3–0 | Nepal |
| 14 Dec | Kuwait | 3–0 | Bangladesh |
| 14 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | United Arab Emirates |

##### Pool C

| Date | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Total |
| 10 Dec | South Korea | 3–0 | India | | | | | |
| 10 Dec | China | 3–0 | Saudi Arabia | | | | | |
| 11 Dec | India | 3–0 | Bahrain | | | | | |
| 11 Dec | South Korea | 1–3 | China | 12–15 | 9–15 | 15–4 | 8–15 | 44–49 |
| 12 Dec | South Korea | 3–0 | Saudi Arabia | | | | | |
| 12 Dec | China | 3–0 | Bahrain | | | | | |
| 13 Dec | China | 3–0 | India | | | | | |
| 13 Dec | Saudi Arabia | 3–0 | Bahrain | | | | | |
| 14 Dec | South Korea | 3–0 | Bahrain | | | | | |
| 14 Dec | Saudi Arabia | – | India | | | | | |

#### Classification 7th–12th

| Date | | Score | |
| 15 Dec | United Arab Emirates | 0–3 | Saudi Arabia |
| 16 Dec | Pakistan | 3–0 | Thailand |
| 16 Dec | India | 3–0 | United Arab Emirates |
| 17 Dec | Bangladesh | 3–0 | United Arab Emirates |
| 18 Dec | Pakistan | 2–3 | United Arab Emirates |
| 19 Dec | Pakistan | 3–0 | Thailand |
| 19 Dec | India | 3–0 | Saudi Arabia |

#### Final round

| Date | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total |
| 15 Dec | China | 0–3 | South Korea | 14–16 | 8–15 | 7–15 | 29–46 |
| 15 Dec | Burma | 3–1 | Iraq | | | | |
| 15 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | Kuwait | | | | |
| 16 Dec | China | 3–0 | Kuwait | | | | |
| 16 Dec | Japan | 3–1 | Iraq | | | | |
| 16 Dec | Burma | 0–3 | South Korea | | | | |
| 17 Dec | Burma | 0–3 | Japan | | | | |
| 17 Dec | China | 3–0 | Iraq | | | | |
| 17 Dec | Kuwait | 0–3 | South Korea | | | | |
| 18 Dec | Iraq | 0–3 | Kuwait | | | | |
| 18 Dec | Burma | 0–3 | China | | | | |
| 18 Dec | Japan | 3–1 | South Korea | | | | |
| 19 Dec | Iraq | 0–3 | South Korea | | | | |
| 19 Dec | Burma | 3–0 | Kuwait | | | | |
| 19 Dec | Japan | – | China | | | | |

### Women

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | Pts | SW | SL | SR |
| 1 | Japan | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 15.000 |
| 2 | China | 5 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3.000 |
| 3 | South Korea | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1.667 |
| 4 | North Korea | 5 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 0.778 |
| 5 | Thailand | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 0.231 |
| 6 | Hong Kong | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0.067 |
| Date | | Score | | Set 1 | Set 2 | Set 3 | Total |
| 10 Dec | China | 3–1 | North Korea | | | | |
| 10 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | Japan | | | | |
| 10 Dec | South Korea | 3–0 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| 12 Dec | China | 3–0 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| 12 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | North Korea | | | | |
| 12 Dec | Japan | 3–1 | South Korea | | | | |
| 14 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | China | | | | |
| 14 Dec | North Korea | 3–0 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| 14 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | South Korea | | | | |
| 16 Dec | Thailand | 0–3 | China | | | | |
| 16 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| 16 Dec | South Korea | 3–0 | North Korea | 15–6 | 15–10 | 15–4 | 45–20 |
| 18 Dec | Thailand | 3–1 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| 18 Dec | Japan | 3–0 | North Korea | | | | |
| 18 Dec | China | 3–0 | South Korea | 15–4 | 15–9 | 15–6 | 45–19 |