Park waved a banner saying "Dokdo is our territory" referring to a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan while celebrating his team's 2-0 win over their fierce rivals in the Olympic bronze medal match at Wembley Stadium in August.

As a result, his medal was withheld as political protests are banned under the Olympic Charter. 

He will travel to Switzerland, along with a delegation from the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC), for the hearing at the Lausanne Palace hotel next Monday (February 11).


"Park will be traveling with an international lawyer, an attorney for the Korea Football Association and an official of the KOC," the KOC said in a statement published today in Seoul.

"The KOC has been working with an international law firm to prepare for the IOC's 'no-mercy' approach to political messages during Olympic Games."

In December football's world governing body, FIFA, banned Park for two games and fined him 3,500 Swiss francs (£2,400/$3,800/€2,900).

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