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
Liancourt Rocks two main islets and 35 smaller rocks; the total surface area of the islets is , with the highest elevation of found at an unnamed location on the West Islet. The Liancourt Rocks lie in rich fishing grounds that may contain large deposits of natural gas. The Liancourt Rocks consist of two main islets and numerous surrounding rocks. The two main islets, called "Ojima" (男島, "Male Island") and "Mejima" (女島, "Female Island") in Japanese, and "Seodo" (, "Western Island") and "Dongdo" (, "Eastern Island") in Korean, are apart. The Western Island is the larger of the two, with a wider