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.

A group of women around 70 years old laugh and sing on a beach in Jeju, an island off South Korea, preparing to spend the day diving for shellfish. Moments later, they’ll plunge into frigid waters as ...

Sue Kim directs the feature, which will debut at TIFF 2024. The tradition of South Korean haenyeo is now being brought to the big screen. Director/executive producer Sue Kim helms the ...

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,” ...

"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 ...

Sue Kim first encountered the inspiration for her new film “The Last of the Sea Women,” which arrives Friday on Apple TV+, when she was an 8-year-old from a Detroit suburb vacationing with her family ...

Director Sue Kim’s doc for A24 and Apple about Korean grandmother divers battling oceanic threats is set to get a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival ahead of an Oct. 11 bow on Apple TV+. By ...

Too often, the worst effects of climate change are experienced by those who contribute the least. Few people feel this more deeply than the Haenyeo women of Jeju Island, off South Korea. This ...

The Haenyeo, or "women of the sea," are a group of all-women extreme divers who work off the coast of Korea. They have spent their entire lives free-diving as much as 60 feet under the surface in the ...

Few aspects of nonfiction film are more enthralling, or even cinematic, than watching experts doing something expertly. When the performance is something you would never do yourself, it’s daunting.

Sue Kim’s documentary follows these brave Haenyeos as they plunge into the chilly waters to harvest sea urchins, conch, abalone and octopus. Wearing only a wet suit, mask and flippers, they descend ...