Volleyball events were contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.
| Men | 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 | Haruhiko Hanawa Shohei Iwatsuki Yoshio Kobayashi Takashi Maruyama Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Katsumi Oda Kenji Shimaoka Mikiyasu Tanaka Yoshinori Tanaka Shinichiro Tsujiai | valign=top | Chen Fulin Chen Gang Hou Jie Hu Jin Li Jianxin Wang Jiawei Wang Qingheng Xu Zhen Zheng Zongyuan Zhou Zhongyu | |
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