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 returned Taiwan to China. The Japanese and Americans dispute these claims, stating that there was no evidence of a Chinese presence on the islands when the Japanese claimed them in 1895, and that they had been included in the administration of the Ryukyu Islands after World War II with no objections by either Chinese government. The Senkaku Islands have seen many incidents between the three countries at the center of the dispute since the 1990s. The Liancourt Rocks, known as Takeshima in Japanese and Dokdo or Tokto in Korean, are a group of two small islets and rocks in the