This policy immediately came under fierce attack from teachers’ unions and other quarters, some of whom felt that Korean teachers were not equipped to teach though the medium of English, that pupils’ learning of science and maths content might suffer, and that the Korean language might also suffer. These objections and worries caused a large amount of critical coverage in the press, to the extent that the government decided to order a review of the project immediately, with a public hearing into the project. This led to the abandonment, after only six months, of the mol-ib scheme in its purest form in government schools. There still remained the concern about standards of English, so the Ministry in Seoul decided next to adopt a different approach. It is widely felt that Korean teachers use too much Korean in class,