Final results for the Handball competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1]
Each qualified country was allowed to enter one team of 15 players and they all were eligible for participation. Five nations competed in both tournaments.
A total of 282(*) handball players (171 men and 111 women) from 15 nations (men from 12 nations - women from 8 nations) competed at the Seoul Games:
Algeria (14) (men:14 women:0)
China (12) (men:0 women:12)
Ivory Coast (14) (men:0 women:14)
Czechoslovakia (29) (men:14 women:15)
East Germany (13) (men:13 women:0)
Hungary (14) (men:14 women:0)
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Japan (15) (men:15 women:0)
Norway (15) (men:0 women:15).svg/1280px-Flag_of_South_Korea_(1984%E2%80%931997).svg.png){kind=small}
South Korea (26) (men:14 women:12)
Soviet Union (29) (men:14 women:15)
Spain (15) (men:15 women:0)
Sweden (14) (men:14 women:0)
United States (28) (men:14 women:14).svg/1280px-Flag_of_Yugoslavia_(1946-1992).svg.png){kind=small}
Yugoslavia (29) (men:15 women:14)(*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in one game at least.
* Host nation (South Korea)