Sitting at the front of the St. Paul library with the usual suspects for January’s book club meeting, I was struck by the common response to The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.

Han, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written books about two of South ... even deadlier chapter on Jeju Island, in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

Off the coast of Jeju Island ... women are known as the haenyeo, free divers from a self-contained matriarchal community, and they are the subject of new documentary, The Last of the Sea Women.

The director of the Apple Original Film The Last of the Sea ... women as an adult, Kim remains in awe of them. "I found out that they were the matriarchs — they literally converted Jeju Island ...