Badminton at the 1997 East Asian Games was held at Busan, South Korea in the month of May. Competitions for five individual disciplines as well as for teams was conducted. Host South Korea topped with four gold medals, while China won two gold medals and Chinese Taipei's only gold medal was in the men's singles discipline.
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men's singles Fung Permadi Fumihiko Machida Chen Wei Jang Chun-woong Women's singles Lee Joo-hyun Takako Ida Sun Jian Zeng Yaqiong Men's doubles Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung Choi Ji-tae Kim Joong-suk Que Ning Liang Yongping Takuya Katayama Yuzo Kubota Women's doubles Zhang Jin Peng Xinyong Wang Li Liu Lufang Peng Ju-yu Chen Mei-chun Chikako Nakayama Takae Masumo Mixed doubles Lee Dong-soo Yim Kyung-jin Yang Ming Zhang Jin Hu Zhilan Peng Xinyong Yoo Yong-sung Lee Kyung-won Men's team Hwang Sun-ho Jang Chun-wong Lee Dong-soo Choi Ji-tae Kim Joong-suk Kim Hyung-joon Yoo Yong-sung Hu Zhilan Xiao Ting Que Ning Yang Ming Liang Yongping Xia Xuanze Chen Wei Chen Feng Jang Chun-wung Huang Shih-chung Fumihiko Machida Yuzo Kubota Takuya Katayama Women's team Yao Jie Liu Lufang Wang Li Zhang Jin Peng Xinyong Sun Jian Zeng Yaqiong Lee Joo-hyun Lee Deuk-soon Park Se-yeon Lee So-young Cha Yun-sook Yim Kyung-jin Park Jin-hyun Lee Kyung-won Peng Ju-yu Chen Mei-chun Chikako Nakayama Takae Masumo Takako Ida
Final results Category Winners Runners-up Score Men's singles Fung Permadi Fumihiko Machida 18–13, 15–5 Women's singles Lee Joo-hyun Takako Ida 11–8, 11–5 Men's doubles Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung Choi Ji-tae Kim Joong-suk 15–2, 15–4 Women's doubles Zhang Jin Peng Xinyong Wang Li Liu Lufang 15–8, 15–6 Mixed doubles Lee Dong-soo Yim Kyung-jin Yang Ming Zhang Jin 15–11, 15–6
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