The KSA came under fire for its selection process and for informing skiers of their exclusion so close to the Feb. 9-25 Olympics.

The KSA announced a list of four alpine skiers -- two men and two women -- for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in late January. The KSA had picked nine skiers for a training camp, hoping they would all get to compete in the Olympics, but apparently five of them were cut from the team at the last minute.

Among them was Kyung Sung-hyun, who missed the selection even though he attended the national team launch ceremony wearing South Korea's Olympic uniform.

Kyung and some of the skiers later filed a court injunction against the KSA to suspend its national team selection and staged protests on the streets in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province. Their injunction request, however, was rejected by the court.

"It's already frustrating to not compete at the Olympics, which I had spent the last four years preparing for, but now the association is trying punish me," said one skier who asked not to be named.

The KSA is reportedly considering levying punishment on three skiers who participated in the protest in the Olympic host city.

"We're not trying to punish these skiers just because they criticized our decision," the KSA official said. "Some of them denounced the skiers who competed at the Olympics and KSA officials publicly through media interviews and their social media, so we want to check the facts and review whether we should mete out punishment or not."

The KSA will hold its disciplinary committee meeting next Tuesday.

The KSA is also dealing with the two mogul skiers who were banned for life for assaulting teammates after drinking during an international competition in Japan last month. Choi Jae-woo and Kim Ji-hun received lifetime bans for their misdeeds, but the two recently filed an appeal to the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee to review the KSA's decision. (Yonhap)