Badminton tournaments were held for the fifth time at the 8th Asian Games in 1978 from 11 December to 20 December in Bangkok, Thailand.
| Men's singles | |||
| Men's doubles | Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata | Tang Xianhu Lin Shiquan | Hou Jiachang Yu Yaodong |
Fu Han Ping Wong Man Hing | |||
| Men's team | Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata Rudy Heryanto Kartono Liem Swie King Iie Sumirat | Han Jian Hou Jiachang Lin Shiquan Luan Jin Tang Xianhu Yu Yaodong | Sawei Chanseorasmee Bandid Jaiyen Pichai Kongsirithavorn Udom Luangpetcharaporn Sarit Pisudchaikul Surapong Suharitdamrong |
Javed Iqbal Zahid Maqbool Hassan Shaheed Tariq Wadood | |||
| Women's singles | |||
| Women's doubles | Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguna | Qiu Yufang Zheng Huiming | Theresia Widiastuti Ruth Damayanti |
Sirisriro Patama Thongkam Kingmanee | |||
| Women's team | Li Fang Liang Qiuxia Liu Xia Qiu Yufang Zhang Ailing Zheng Huiming | Ruth Damayanti Ivana Lie Tjan So Gwan Theresia Widiastuti Imelda Wiguna Verawaty Wiharjo | Saori Kondo Mikiko Takada Atsuko Tokuda Emiko Ueno Yoshiko Yonekura Hiroe Yuki |
Porntip Buntanon Suleeporn Jittariyakul Thongkam Kingmanee Petchroong Liengtrakulngam Sirisriro Patama | |||
| Mixed doubles | Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing | Kartono Theresia Widiastuti | Christian Hadinata Imelda Wiguna |
Yu Yaodong Li Fang |
| Discipline | Winner | Runner-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles |  Han Jian | Iie Sumirat | 15–6, 15–1 |
| Liem Swie King | Luan Jin | 15–5, 18–13 | |
| Women's singles | Liang Qiuxia |  Sirisriro Patama | 12–11, 11–5 |
| Liu Xia |  Saori Kondo | 11–5, 11–4 | |
| Men's doubles | Lin Shiquan Tang Xianhu |  Wong Man Hing Fu Han Ping | 15–3, 15–5 |
| Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata | Hou Jiachang Yu Yaodong | 17–14, 15–7 | |
| Women's doubles | Zheng Huiming Qiu Yufang | Ruth Damyanti Theresia Widiastuti | 15–5, 15–12 |
| Imelda Wiguna Verawaty Wiharjo | Sirisriro Patama Thongkam Kingmanee | 15–7, 15–6 | |
| Mixed doubles | Kartono Theresia Widiastuti | 15–8, 15–11 | |
| Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing | Christian Hadinata Imelda Wiguna | 12–15, 15–7, 15–5 |
| Discipline | Winner | Finalist | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's singles | Liem Swie King | Han Jian | 15–7, 15–11 | |
| Women's singles | Liang Qiuxia | Liu Xia | 11–6, 11–5 | |
| Men's doubles | Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata | Lin Shiquan Tang Xianhu | 15–8, 15–10 | |
| Women's doubles[1] | Imelda Wiguna Verawaty Wiharjo | Zheng Huiming Qiu Yufang | 17–14, 15–4 | |
| Mixed doubles | Tang Xianhu Zhang Ailing | Kartono Theresia Widiastuti | 15–8, 17–16 | |
| Men's team | 3—1 | |||
| Women's team | 3–0[2] |