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

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 ...

Known as haenyeo (which literally translates to “sea women”), these marvels free ... Kim witnessed the crisis up close, as ...

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

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 ...

In Jeju Island, a community of women, some aged in their 80s, goes diving to gather shellfish for a living. The Jeju haenyeo (female divers) harvest up to seven hours a day, 90 days of the year ...

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-to-day work. Joo Hyun Kim is the director of Jeju ...

The sea foams as you descend onto ... around the friendship between two women. One, Inseon, is a lapsed documentary film-maker. She moves to Jeju to look after her ageing mother, who survived ...

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 ...