This illustrates the fact that in the Seoul area, and in the central Ministry in Seoul, the whole idea of bilingual education, or of any form of using English to teach Content subjects in government schools, is now effectively off the agenda, and is almost taboo in some quarters, partly as a result of the public reaction to the earlier attempt at implementation. One stakeholder said perceptively that “eventually a bilingual programme will be implemented but now the mood is not right”. Hence the emphasis now on the TEE initiative and other ways of improving English proficiency.