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 ...

A group of older women from Fukushima, Japan, traveled to Jeju Island to offer an apology Tuesday to 'haenyeo,' Korea’s ...

The new Netflix Korean drama “When Life Gives You Tangerines” is gaining strong global attention, bringing 1960s Jeju to life ...

Set in 1960s Jeju Island, the drama ... Released in October last year, “The Last of the Sea Women” captures the fading reality of the haenyeo community through the lives of real divers.

A group of older women from Fukushima ... "Meeting the haenyeo, who are fighting to protect this beautiful sea, is truly inspiring." Seven Jeju haenyeo also took part in the gathering, expressing ...

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, has a new photo exhibit in honor of International Women's Day: "Iconic Women ...

Her mother is one of the island’s hanyeo, a woman diver who harvests sea life from the ocean ... of the village women, just sitting on the rocks of Jeju. That’s the world of When Life Gives ...

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 ...