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 dispute Mutual Defense Treaty is being brought into force on November 17...The general understanding had been agreed to in Seoul." As of 2011, the United States Department of State would stand on a neutral position on this issue. In 1965, the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was signed which recognized the Liancourt Rocks dispute. The conditions in the treaty pertaining to the Liancourt Rocks were as follows: The "Joongang Ilbo" reported in 2007 that this portion of the treaty was ordered destroyed by Chun Doo-hwan in the 1980s. On April 25, 2006, President Roh Moo-hyun