South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the team were granted exemption to two years of mandatory military service but still required to do four weeks of basic training. Park Jong-Woo was not present at the medal ceremony after the gold medal match between Mexico and Brazil and did not receive the bronze medal with the rest of his team due to his political position on the Liancourt Rocks, which are disputed both by South Korea and Japan by having a claim on the islands, after FIFA was notified about Park holding a sign of South Korea having claim on Dokdo, the Korean name for the
Territorial disputes of Japan Korean kingdoms are the Liancourt Rocks, while the Japanese attribute these mentions to other islands such as Jukdo or Ulleungdo and instead point to records indicating Japanese fishing activity around the islands from, at the latest, 1667. North Korea also claims the Liancourt Rocks, as both Korean nations claim the entirety of the Korean Peninsula and other historically Korean territory. North Korea has used the issue as a means of maintaining tension between Japan and South Korea and improving their own relations with South Korea. Territorial disputes of Japan Japan is currently engaged in several territorial disputes with nearby countries,