Smugglers by Santasil Mallik
PostRyoo Seung-wan’s comic-action flick Smugglers offers a cinematic salutation to the indomitable spirit of haenyeo – a dying, semi-matriarchal commune of female divers from the South Korean district of Jeju whose livelihood constitutes harvesting molluscs and seaweed from the ocean. The film tells the story of six divers set in the middle of a nationwide smuggling racket during the country’s … Read More