Partly to address this issue the Presidential Transition Committee in 2008 decided to work on improving the level of English education in the state system, in the hope of improving the results from government schools, in order to reduce the need for parents to spend so much. The Committee therefore took the advice of a group of academic advisors and agreed to implement a bilingual/immersion approach, known in Korea as mol-ib, which included the teaching of content subjects such as maths and science through English. As a result a small number of schools (up to ten in the Seoul area, for example) became involved in a mol-ib scheme.