The Handball events at the 1990 Asian Games were held in Beijing, China between September 26 and October 5, 1990.

South Korea won both men's and women's gold medals in round robin competitions.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Cho Bum-yun Cho Chi-hyo Cho Young-shin Choi Suk-jae Huh Young-sun Kang Jae-won Kim Jae-hwan Lee Hak-myun Lee Ki-ho Lee Sang-sup Lee Suik-houng Moon Byung-wook Park Do-hun Shim Jae-hong Sung Sun-yong Yoon Kyung-shin	Japan Tetsuo Akiyoshi Yukihiro Hashimoto Akiyoshi Kai Takao Kawahara Kazuhiro Miyashita Tsuyoshi Nakayama Shintaro Saito Kiyoharu Sakamaki Shinichi Shudo Takashi Taguchi Daiji Takeda Hideo Takeda Kenji Tamamura Kazuhiko Uozumi Toshiyuki Yamamura Hiroshi Yanai	Saudi Arabia
Women details	South Korea Baek In-suk Cho Eun-hee Jang Ri-ra Jin Mi-suk Kang Sun-kyung Kim Tae-young Kong Ju Lee Im-suk Lee Jong-sim Lee Mi-young Lim Mi-kyung Oh Seong-ok Park Jeong-lim Park Young-sun Song Ji-hyun Suk Min-hee	China Ceng Qiaozhen Liu Siqing Liu Yuying Lu Guanghong Shi Wei Sun Xiulan Wang Tao Wang Wei Wang Yuehao Wu Xin Xie Meiping Xue Jinhua Yue Liane Zhai Chao Zhang Hong Zhang Limei	Chinese Taipei Chan Wen-chin Chang Mei-hung Chang Shan-chi Chao Wen-yu Chen Chiu-ping Chen Ya-hsueh Chiang Yu-fen Chou Chuan-chuan Hsu Jui-yu Hung Shu-fang Lin Pei-ling Lin Su-lin Wang Shu-min Wang Su-yueh Wu Chun-chiu Yang Shu-hua

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
2	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	5	5	0	0
	Japan	5	4	0	1
	Saudi Arabia	5	3	0	2
4	China	5	2	0	3
5	North Korea	5	1	0	4
6	United Arab Emirates	5	0	0	5

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L
	South Korea	5	5	0	0
	China	5	4	0	1
	Chinese Taipei	5	2	1	2
4	North Korea	5	2	0	3
5	Japan	5	1	1	3
6	Hong Kong	5	0	0	5

• Results - Men
• Results - Women

• Asian Handball Federation