The timeline highlights significant milestones in the evolution of Labor News Production (LNP) and its impact on the progressive media movement. Starting in 1980, independent film production grew as a form of resistance against mainstream film, nurturing a politically progressive identity.
On July 2021 almost 50,000 people have marched in South Korea's capital, demanding better working conditions and a higher minimum wage.
1998
The LNP Web site has been accessible since 1998, and in May 2 LNP started monthly Internet Webcasting of its programmes.
1997
It established a research group as a separate branch, which publishes a bi-weekly Webzine on the progressive media movement called Prism
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1991
LNP has trained the workers and ordinary citizens both in video production and the critical reviewing and understanding of the mainstream media
1989
Factory workers became the target of anti-Communist propaganda. Recordings of protests, television talk shows and songs about the fight against injustice present across country
1980
In resistance to the dismal days of the 1980 and the mainstream film industry independent film gained its momentum, forming a strongly political and progressive identity