Korean American filmmaker Sue Kim was only 8 when she first encountered Jeju Island’s centuries-old legends — Korea’s first female breadwinners **who dive to great depths without oxygen tanks.** These women _divers_, or “haenyeo,” are known for their remarkable strength, autonomy and deep connection to the sea. Defying the country’s traditionally patriarchal society, the haenyeo have been diving for centuries, harvesting seaweed, abalone, octopus, conch, sea urchin and more.