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 ...
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 haenyeo live on Jeju Island ... time, women and men dived together. There are various theories about how haenyeo became a woman's profession. Some stories say that the men's haul of sea ...