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,” ...

Sue Kim first discovered the haenyeo on a family trip to South Korea’s Jeju Island. As her family walked along the coast they noticed a gathering of female free divers wearing wetsuits and donning ...

A vanishing way of life is captured in “The Last of the Sea Women.” Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju Island off South ...

"The Last of the Sea Women," coming to Apple TV+ on Oct. 11, tells the story of South Korea's haenyeo -- female divers who harvest seafood without oxygen. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+ BUSAN, South ...

One of this year’s acclaimed Oscar-contending documentaries goes below the waves with a remarkable community of women free divers off the coast of South Korea. They’re formally known as “haenyeo,” but ...

“There’s a 90-year-old woman who goes out for four hours every day and catches sea urchins with her hands.” Filmmaker Sue Kim is describing the flabbergasting feats displayed by the subjects of her ...

This Friday Apple TV+ will debut the documentary “The Last of the Sea Women.” Get ready to meet a band of feisty grandmother warriors often called real life mermaids. On South Korea’s Jeju Island a ...