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 traditional female divers, for Tokyo’s decision to release into the ...

The new Netflix Korean drama “When Life Gives You Tangerines” is gaining strong global attention, bringing 1960s Jeju to life with rolling waves, bright yellow canola fields, bustling markets, and ...

The K-drama tied a tapestry of Korean modern history, Jeju culture, and one family’s dreams in an emotional conclusion ...

Netflix's new release, When Life Gives You Tangerines, chronicles the lives of its quirky characters set against the beautiful backdrop of Jeju Island. Its English title is the translation of the ...

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She has toured all over the world and now leads the all-female band, Sawa Sawa. Soon-ja Hong, 69, is one of the female divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. The women are known as the Haenyeo — "women ...

The global popularity of Netflix’s original Korean series When Life Gives You Tangerines could help spark a long-awaited rebound in the stagnant tourism industry of the southern resort island of ...

In the final episode of When Life Gives You Tangerines, Netflix’s slice-of-life K-drama, protagonist Ae-sun (played here, in her 70s, by Moon So-ri) tells daughter Geum-myeong (played here, in ...

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their 60s from South Korea, a watermelon vendor in Indonesia ...