Movies: Haenyeo
- 2023
Smugglers (2023)
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During the 1970s, in Kunchon, there were women divers who were able to dive without equipment, including two best friends Choon-ja and Jin-sook, Jin-sook's brother and Hammer. They always collected seafood under water for living. But, as fewer factor...
- 2024
The Last of the Sea Women (2024)
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On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats....
- 2016
Canola (2016)
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A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother....
- 2004
My Mother the Mermaid (2004)
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Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her fath...
- 2021
Everglow (2021)
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Everglow begins with the cute struggle of Kyung-hoon (Ji Hyun-woo), who visited Jeju to make a documentary about Jin-ok (Ko Doo-sim), a female diver. Kyunghoon’s work becomes a sincere mission for the souls buried in the deep sea and mountains....
- 1995
Mom, the Star, and the Sea Anemone (1995)
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- 2016
Mermaid Unlimited (2016)
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Yeong-joo, a former synchronized swimming athlete goes to Jeju Island to put together a synchronized swimming team for a performance. She slowly befriends the haenyeo, or female divers, and gradually begins to fit into their way of life....
- 1969
Sound of Breath (1969)
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'Sumbisori' means 'the sound of a haenyeo exhaling on the surface' and tells the warm story of a mother and daughter who have lived as haenyeo all their lives, and their granddaughter over three generations....
- 2023
Daughter of the Sea (2023)
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Battling deep depression, Jaeyoun returns to her roots on the island of Marano, South Korea, to visit her family of female free fivers known as haenyeo. To her surprise, she finds a connection to nature and her ancestors that literally saves her life...
- 2020
Lessons from Jeju (2020)
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Seven months pregnant and apprehensive of the effect motherhood would have on her career as a professional freediver, Kimi Werner took a trip to the island of Jeju in South Korea to meet her heroes, the haenyeo – a group of freediving and fishing wom...
- 2016
Breathing Underwater (2016)
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In Jeju Province, located off the southern coast of Korea, are the women of the sea, those who hold breath for life. These women still exist and they still dive the old way, without tanks. They go into the waters of 10- to 20-meter depth to harvest s...
- 2023
Legend of the Waterflowers (2023)
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Hyun Soonjik is the oldest living resident in Jeju Island. A natural diver with good skills, she became a high rank Haenyeo at an early age and has led an astonishing career of diving for eighty-seven years. Though she looks more comfortable when she...
- 2007
Diving Women of Jeju-do (2007)
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Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish, octopus, and urchins that they sell. The divers are in their si...
- 2022
Bardo (2022)
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During the period of mourning lasting 49 days after her mother’s death, Seon is told that her mother was actually a daughter of a shaman family and will be reborn as her daughter. Seon is doubtful about this story. She wants to prove that her mother’...