ABSTRACT
This chapter shows involvement in the textile and garment industry in Seoul during the 1970s, allied with the high regard in which the author mother and late brother are held in the South Korean labour movement. It argues that the author's 'privileged' position, evinced by personal history and shared experience, has enabled access to material undisclosed heretofore; and has facilitated frank and honest dialogue between all players involved. The chapter includes a number of examples of works on South Korean economics and industrial relations; works which are integral to 'the conventional view', wherein averages are fundamental components of evidence, and where the essential clarification of the term as 'median', 'mode', 'mean'. It also shows that much of the literature intrinsic to the formulation of the 'conventional view' of the South Korean labour movement of the 1960s and 1970s has been based, to greater or lesser degrees, upon statistical data of doubtful provenance.
