The study explores how a Korean language arts education policy (KLAEP) terminated focusing on a case where an elected subject called ‘Media Language’ under 2007 revised curriculum put into an end without being applied into classroom. I've employed archive research, interview, and survey methods. The policy termination was carried by the two parts；one is the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) put a request that elective subjects chosen by a small number of students need be restructured in an integrative way without considering public opinion：the other is professionals involved in Korean language arts education (KLAE) who put the government's request into practice they didn't agree with on little academic or practical grounds. As a result, the former produced a value of ‘popularity’ required for elective subjects in a highschool curriculum and the latter got clicked on ‘contingency’ in selecting elective subjects. The two parties employ numbers, symbols, assignment of blame, common interests, and decisions rather than reason based on efficiency to build a skillful discourse to terminate a KLAEP. That means the process of policy termination of KLAE could be called art than a science in that policy terminators define, represent and interpret problems not in a descriptive way but in a symbolic way.