On the windswept shores of this volcanic island, three women ready themselves for another dive into the cold sea. Lee Bok-soo ...

Gyeongbuk Culture & Tourism Organization (President Kim Namil) announced that it successfully held the "Pohang-Jeju Haenyeo Exchange" event in Jeju Island for three days from the 20th to the 22nd.

Around 37 minutes into The Last of the Sea Women, Sue Kim’s stunning documentary now streaming on Apple TV+, Woo Jeong-min dives into a sea so dark that its teal depths look almost solid. As she ...

Often likened to mermaids in media reports and popular culture, South Korea’s famed Haenyeo (“sea women”) spend much of the day underwater, diving without scuba gear to collect abalone, octopus, kelp ...

Women known as haenyeo have been gathering seafood in Korea for hundreds of years—submerging deep underwater without diving equipment or breathing apparatuses to do the muljil, or harvesting. Today, ...

The Korean Cultural Center is organizing a special exhibition on the intangible cultural heritage, the culture of <Haenyeo: Woman of the Sea>. In November 2016, the Haenyo culture was registered on ...

The sea women of Jeju Island don’t look tough–until you get them in the water. Imagine free diving in cold, shark-infested, treacherous waters without even a rubber diving suit. You’ve been training ...

A department store buyer has become deeply fascinated by haenyeo, the traditional female divers of Jeju. Youngnam Kang, age 34, is a seafood buyer on the fresh food team at Shinsegae Department Store.

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 5 (UPI) --Sue Kim's The Last of the Sea Women opens with stunning scenes of a free diver descending to the sea floor, underwater cinematography that would not be out of place ...

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