"Being a haenyeo is a calling." Apple TV has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled The Last of the Sea Women, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sue Kim. A ...

Around 37 minutes into The Last of the Sea Women, Sue Kim’s stunning documentary now streaming on Apple TV+, Woo Jeong-min dives into a sea so dark that its teal depths look almost solid. As she ...

A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.

Sue Kim remembers the first time she saw the haenyeo. The director was eight when she traveled to Jeju Island with her family and came across a group of women clad in wetsuits and masks. "They were so ...

For nearly four centuries, groups of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island have made a living by harvesting seafood from the ocean. Known as Haenyeo, meaning “women of the sea” in Korean, these women ...

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 5 (UPI) --Sue Kim's The Last of the Sea Women opens with stunning scenes of a free diver descending to the sea floor, underwater cinematography that would not be out of place ...

In the The Last of the Sea Women documentary, the way of life of South Korea’s haenyeo, or sea women of Jeju Island, is disappearing. But it won’t happen without a fierce fight from the ...

50 miles off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is Jeju Island: home to a unique sea culture and a celebrated community of women, the Haenyeo. Haenyeo literally translates to 'sea women'— ...

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Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional female marine-life harvesters on Jeju Island. Considering themselves “guardians of the sea,” ...