Editing Ha Tae-kwon (section)

== Career ==
Ha made his first appearance in Olympic Games in [[Badminton at the 1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]], competed in the men's doubles event partnered with [[Kang Kyung-jin]]. He and Kang reached the quarterfinals after beat [[Siripong Siripul]]/[[Khunakorn Sudhisodhi]] of Thailand and [[Jon Holst-Christensen]]/[[Thomas Lund]] of Denmark in the first and second round. In the quarterfinals they defeated by the Malaysian pair [[Yap Kim Hock]]/[[Cheah Soon Kit]] in straight games.

In [[Badminton at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]], Ha qualified to compete in two events. Teamed-up with [[Chung Jae-hee]] in the mixed doubles, they finished their campaign in the second round, beat the Ukrainian [[Vladislav Druzchenko]]/[[Viktoriya Evtushenko]] and lost to eventual silver medalists [[Trikus Haryanto]]/[[Minarti Timur]] of Indonesia. In the men's doubles, he partnered with [[Kim Dong-moon]]. They had bye in the first round, beat [[Yap Kim Hock]]/[[Cheah Soon Kit]] of Malaysia and [[Ricky Subagja]]/[[Rexy Mainaky]] of Indonesia in the second and quarterfinals, lost to [[Tony Gunawan]]/[[Candra Wijaya]] of Indonesia in the semifinals, and won a bronze medal match against [[Choong Tan Fook]]/[[Lee Wan Wah]] of Malaysia.

In [[badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]], Ha competed in the men's doubles with [[Kim Dong-moon]] as a third seeded. They had a bye in the first round and defeated [[Robert Mateusiak]]/[[Michał Łogosz]] of Poland in the second. In the quarterfinals, Ha and Kim beat [[Zheng Bo]]/[[Sang Yang]] of China 15–7, 15–11.  They won the semifinal against [[Eng Hian]]/[[Flandy Limpele]] of Indonesia 15–8, 15–2 and defeated fellow Koreans [[Lee Dong-soo]] and [[Yoo Yong-sung]] 15–11, 15–4 to win the gold medal.

In 2005, he competed at the [[2005 Sudirman Cup|Sudirman Cup]], and helped the national team win a bronze medal.

Ha graduated from the [[Wonkwang University]]. In 2008, he was coach of the national team, and in October of the same year he became the coach of Samsung Electro-Mechanics.