Labor News Production's (LNP) key activities are production, documenting and archiving Korean labor activism, training, organizing, building solidarity, research, and distribution.

LNP production styles are tailored to the various needs of our production partners. They have included: newsreels, educational videos, historical documentaries, and many others. While LNP's programs vary in form and content, they are consistently produced from the perspective of the progressive working class.

In addition to capturing specific moments for individual programs, LNP also attempts to record every major issue and event related to Korea's labor movement. Therefore, LNP acts as an everyday recorder of on-going history. As a result of this activity, LNP's video archive includes more than 3,000 hours of footage.

Since 1991, LNP has taught workers and ordinary citizens how to both criticize the mainstream media and make their own videos. Many graduates of the training program are making videos on their own. Also, during the 90s, LNP promoted public access television among professors, civil groups, and community video makers. As a result, public access finally became legal in 2000. LNP is currently running a 3 month video making program in Han Gyu Rae cultural center as well as various additional video production programs, including university courses.

LNP actively supports former workshop participants who have begun worker video production groups. LNP's goal is to help these groups form their own independent solidarity network.

LNP works with various progressive communication organizations, both regionally and internationally, including: the Korean Association of Independent Film and Video Makers, Anti-censorship Forum, Project for Peoples' TV, Human Rights Film Festival, Korean Progressive Network, Korean LaborNet, and others. Also, LNP has participated in international media activism for many years, including work with the international video coalition Videazimut (LNP's president is on the board of directors) and as an organizer of international conferences, such as LaborMedia 97 and LaborMedia 99.

LNP has played a pioneering role in certain sectors of the alternative media and labor communication movement in Korea. For example, LNP has published various articles covering the theory and practice of documentary video making, helped introduce the concept of community TV to Korea, promoted discussions of strategic use of new technologies, and has written several articles on public access television. In 1997, LNP established a separate research branch and will continue to play a more systematic and active role in the area of research. In 2000, the research branch started to publish a bi-weekly webzine called PRISM (http://prism.jinbo.net)

As a production organization active in a country lacking a strong alternative distribution system, LNP has been forced to find creative ways to ensure our videos are widely seen and discussed. One of LNP's main distribution methods is to use the network of affiliated trade unions within the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). In addition, a new, experimental method has been to organize the Seoul International Labor Video and Film Festival, which is becoming one of the best showcases of labor video and film in the world.