J ust off South Korea’s southern coast lies Jeju Island, home to a community of women divers known as Haenyeo, or “women of the sea.” These women are trained at a young age in free diving into the ...

“The Last of the Sea Women,” produced and directed by Sue Kim, takes a deep dive into the lives of the haenyeos, the women of Jeju Island off the southern coast of South Korea who continue a ...

‘The Last of the Sea Women’ Review: A Deep Dive Into an Underwater Korean Tradition Sue Kim’s documentary provides a lively look at an aging-out — yet active — community of traditional ...

In 1950, there were as many as 30,000 Haenyo on the island, in 2003 there were only 5,650 sea women registered as divers, of whom 85 percent were over 50 years old. This might be the last ...

The Haenyeo -- literally "sea women" -- divers live on Jeju Island, 53 miles (85 km) south of the South Korean mainland. From adolescence, they train to deep dive to harvest food from the seabed.

“The Last of the Sea Women,” produced and directed by Sue Kim, takes a deep dive into the lives of the haenyeos, the women of Jeju Island off the southern coast of South Korea who continue a ...

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 ...

Jeju Haenyeo — which translates to "women of the sea" — begin diving for seafood at around the age of 15, ... The Mariana Trench is home to some weird deep sea fish, ...

In the South Korean province of Jeju lives a group of women who may, at first, sound as if they’re mythical creatures. The haenyeo (“sea women”) dive and swim in the depths of the ocean ...

SEOUL, 2 September (BelTA - Yonhap) - A Navy officer became South Korea's first female deep sea diver in the Navy's 78-year history, officials said, amid an ongoing push to broaden women's role in ...

‘The Last of the Sea Women’ Review: A Deep Dive Into an Underwater Korean Tradition Reviewed online, Oct. 7, 2024. Running time: 87 MIN.