Through a meta-analytic reading of three discursive events—the English Village initiative (2004–), LG Electronics' English-only policy (2008–2010), and the Busan English-Friendly City project (2022–)—this study explores how monolingualism has been reconstructed rather than dismantled in South Korea's two-decade "English fever." Drawing on Roland Barthes' theory of myth, this paper analyzes English-only and English-friendly discourses not as neutral communicative tools, but as a second-order sign system that naturalizes contingent policies as self-evident imperatives of global competitiveness. Positioning itself within critical accounts of English ideology in Korea, this exploratory, agenda-setting study re-examines secondary sources across three institutional fields: education, corporate management, and urban administration. The analysis argues that each field mobilizes a different technology of normalization— disciplinary, performance-based, or environmental—and that these modes are shaped less by chronological succession than by the institutional conditions of each field: rather than replacing one another, they accumulate and overlap. Yet all three converge on a single constant, the myth of "separate bilingualism," which treats Korean and English as mutually exclusive domains. Across these institutional contexts, the proliferation of English language planning in Korea marks not a departure from monolingual ideology but its adaptive reproduction through new discursive technologies.

Abstract
1. 서론
2. 단일언어주의 신화
    2.1. 바르트의 신화와 탈신화
    2.2. 단일언어주의 신화와 분리 통치
3. 탈-단일언어주의 징후가 포착되는가?: 세 가지 담론사건의 지형
    3.1. 영어‘마을’의 출현: 훈육적 통치
    3.2. LG전자 영어 공용화의 실험: 성과관리형 통치
    3.3. 부산시의 영어상용 도시계획: 환경적 통치
    3.4. 소결: 세 가지 양식과 하나의 상수
4. (탈)신화의 징후를 다시 찾기
    4.1. 고부담 언어평가정책의 재탐구
    4.2. 기호경관과 텅 빈 기표의 관찰
    4.3. 지배적 신화 바깥에서 미학적, 윤리적 전환
5. 요약 및 향후 과제
참고문헌

• 신동일(Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang Univerrsity; 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Korea) | Dongil Shin