Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan was suspended 18 months for doping.
In a doping hearing session in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, the world swimming governing body FINA handed down Park the ban for being tested positive for testosterone in a drug test in September.
The punishment will expire on March 2, 2016, giving the 26-year-old a chance to swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
However, the Korean Olympic Committee prohibits an athlete whose suspension expired less than three years before the Olympics from representing the country
FINA added that Park's results from Sept. 3 will be annulled and prize money will be forfeited, meaning he will have to return the one silver and five bronzes he won at last year's Asian Games.
Park won 400-meter freestyle gold and 200-meter freestyle silver at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, becoming Korea's first Olympic swimming medallist.