JEJU ISLAND, South Korea (WTHR) — Off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula is a tropical paradise, a magnificent coastline, a place that beckons Koreans and foreigners to the water. Jeju Island ...

Every day, Kim Ok Ja dons a wetsuit and snorkel, grabs a fishing spear and a net, and dives into the Pacific Ocean to hunt for conch and sea life that her family can eat or sell. She is 78 years old ...

WHILE mermaids are a familiar figure in folklore, with their waist-long tresses and shimmering tails, their existence has long remained a mystery. But on Jeju island, some 50 miles off the coast of ...

After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for harvesting seafood from the ocean floor without scuba gear, photographer Peter Ash Lee said one ...

“Korea’s mermaids,” also affectionally known as “rowdy grandmas,” are elderly free divers who for generations have caught seafood off South Korea’s Jeju Island to feed their community. They’re known ...

Jeju, the island setting of veteran Seattle music and food writer Sumi Hahn’s debut novel, “The Mermaid from Jeju,” is said to have been formed when a giant grandmother named Seolmundae shoveled seven ...

Jeju Island has it all: from beaches, a dormant volcano, lava tubes and curious cliffside rock formations. There are also wacky museums, unique local dishes (black pig, thick abalone porridge) and an ...

Hahn’s sweeping debut follows a girl growing up on the Korean island of Jeju in the lead up to U.S. intervention. In 1944, one year before the American occupation of southern Korea begins, 18-year-old ...

Today, they’re known as Jeju Island Mermaids. On the South Korean island, one of that country’s major tourist destinations, the women are a charming historical attraction. Lisa See’s new novel, “The ...