| Event: | Men's 500 metres |
| Games: | 1996 Asian Winter Games |
| Venue: | Heilongjiang Indoor Rink |
| Dates: | 5–6 February 1996 |
| Competitors: | 12 |
| Nations: | 4 |
| Gold: | Jaegal Sung-yeol |
| Goldnoc: | KOR |
| Gold2: | Takahiro Hamamichi |
| Goldnoc2: | JPN |
| Bronze: | Kim Yoon-man |
| Bronzenoc: | KOR |
| Prev: | 1990 |
| Next: | 1999 |
See main article: Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games. The men's 500 metres at the 1996 Asian Winter Games was held in February 1996 in Harbin, China.
| width=40 | Rank | width=250 | Athlete | width=80 | Race 1 | width=80 | Race 2 | width=80 | Total | width=50 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36.70 | 36.87 | 1:13.57 | |||||||||
| 36.69 | 36.88 | 1:13.57 | |||||||||
| 36.94 | 36.85 | 1:13.79 | |||||||||
| 4 | 36.94 | 37.25 | 1:14.19 | ||||||||
| 5 | 37.39 | 36.90 | 1:14.29 | ||||||||
| 6 | 37.47 | 37.58 | 1:15.05 | ||||||||
| 7 | 37.52 | 37.66 | 1:15.18 | ||||||||
| 8 | 37.60 | 37.73 | 1:15.33 | ||||||||
| 9 | 37.69 | 37.75 | 1:15.44 | ||||||||
| 10 | 37.97 | 37.50 | 1:15.47 | ||||||||
| 11 | 38.07 | 38.29 | 1:16.36 | ||||||||
| 12 | 56.74 | 37.77 | 1:34.51 |