South Korea’s legendary sea divers who have been making waves on Jeju Island for generations. Known as real-life mermaids, these indomitable women, now mostly in their 60s, 70s, and 80s ...

The Jeju Haenyeo are professional underwater divers who do not rely on apparatus to harvest marine lives in Jeju Island. They realized that the sea is a Mother Nature to be tendered and preserved ...

Haenyeo, Korea's female divers, have inspired several hit K-dramas Netflix latest K-drama hit “When Life Gives You Tangerines ...

Known as haenyeo (which literally translates to “sea women”), these marvels free ... for the first time when I was 8. We were ...

The haenyeo live on Jeju Island in South Korea ... The documentary film «The Last Women of the Sea» by director Sue Kim was released in September. The film follows the haenyeo in their day ...

Soon-ja Hong, 69, is one of the female divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. The women are known as the Haenyeo — "women of the sea." Starting in the 17th century, the island's women took over the ...

“The Island of Sea Women (Scribner), by Lisa See. Ten years ago, Lisa See was sitting in a doctor’s office leafing through magazines when she came across a brief article about a place she’d never ...

A group of older women from Fukushima, Japan, traveled to Jeju Island to offer an apology Tuesday ... which both depend on the sea for their livelihoods. Suzuki Mari, another activist, emphasized ...

The highly anticipated Jeju Island Arc in Solo Leveling has finally commenced, but it’s missing our main character. A few years ago, an S-Rank Gate opened on the island, and because no one was ...