["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article asks how strikes in post‐1987 South Korea came to be quantified as economic losses and reframed as “strike risk.” Drawing on governmental statistics, archival materials, and newspaper coverage, I show that the quantification of strikes enabled the state and the media to redefine them as measurable threats to economic order. This shift emerged as economic loss calculations increasingly shaped public discourse on labor conflict. By tracing how numerical estimates gained credibility and authority, the article illustrates how quantification transformed a political confrontation into an economic risk that could be governed. The article contributes to debates on the quantification of risk and on labor government by clarifying how strike risk emerged through attempts to make a fundamentally unquantifiable phenomenon calculable.\n"]