# Rugby union at the 2002 Asian Games

Rugby (Sevens and Union) was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Ulsan, South Korea. All games played at the Ulsan Public Stadium. The competition included only men's events.

## Schedule

| ● | Round | ● | Last round | P | Preliminary round | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun |
| Men's union | | | | | | | ● | | | | ● | | | | ● |
| Men's sevens | P | ½ | F | | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Medalists
### Union

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Baek In-sung Cho Chul-hyeong Choi Chang-yeul Choi Sung-hwan Chun Jong-man Han Young-hoon Kim Dong-sun Kim Hyung-ki Kim Jae-sung Kim Kwang-jae Kim Kwang-mo Kim Young-nam Lee Jin-wook Lee Kwan-hee Lee Myung-geun Park Chang-min Park Jin-bae Park Kwang-soo Park No-young Park Yong-don Shin Woo-sik Sung Hae-kyung Um Soon-gil Yong Hwan-myung Yoo Min-suk Yun Hi-su | Japan Yuichi Hisadomi Takeomi Ito Kensuke Iwabuchi Dai Katsuno Tsuyoshi Kinoshita Yoshiyuki Koike Koichi Kubo Toru Kurihara Ryohei Miki Takuro Miuchi Yukio Motoki Keiya Nishimura Daisuke Ohata Hirotoki Onozawa Yuya Saito Takamasa Sawaguchi Masahiro Shichinohe Kenji Shomen Hiroyuki Tanuma Ken Tsukagoshi Shinichi Tsukida Tetsuya Watanabe Eiji Yamamoto Masahito Yamamoto Hiroki Yamazaki Takashi Yoshida | Chinese Taipei Chang Ching-fong Chang Wei-cheng Chen Chen-fu Chen Chi-chung Chen Wen-yen Chen Yu-chen Hsieh Cheng-chung Hsieh Wen-kang Huang Chen-hua Huang Yu-ming Hung Chi-hsiang Lin Wen-cheng Lin Yi-te Ling Chang-heng Pan Chih-ming Pan Kuei-chih Sun Cheng-yen Tien Chung-i Wang Kuo-feng Wu Chih-hsien Wu Chih-wei Wu Shih-chieh Yeh Teng-yuan Yen Hsiang-hua Yu Fuh-hsin Yu Po-chin |

### Sevens

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Choi Chang-yeul Chun Jong-man Kim Hyung-ki Kim Jae-sung Lee Jin-wook Lee Myung-geun Park Chang-min Park Jin-bae Park No-young Sung Hae-kyung Yong Hwan-myung Yoo Min-suk | Chinese Taipei Chang Ching-fong Chen Chen-fu Chen Chi-chung Chen Wen-yen Huang Chen-hua Pan Chih-ming Sun Cheng-yen Tien Chung-i Wang Kuo-feng Wu Chih-hsien Wu Chih-wei Wu Shih-chieh | Thailand Nattawut Aryuwan Paisak Chueakomhod Jintawat Jeepetch Sayan Kaewmoolmuk Tanyavit Kuasint Santi Meethavorn Nattawut Petcharawuthikri Chatree Phaksoontorn Sarayuth Thiengtrong Kitti Wangkanai Korapong Wongsalungkarn Nantawat Wongwanichslip |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The teams were drawn into two groups of four teams for sevens competition, rugby union competitions were played in round robin format.

## Final standing
### Union

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |

### Sevens

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| | Thailand | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Japan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | China | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Sri Lanka | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |