A group of "haenyeo" -- female divers who make their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor without using breathing equipment -- collects shells and marine life in waters off South ...

There, she saw the women divers known as the haenyeo, who were carrying on the centuries-old tradition of harvesting seafood from the ocean floor. “I remember just seeing this very large gaggle ...

Fishing (particularly commercial fishing) is considered a male-dominated realm but it turns out that the 3 million tonnes of fish per year that women catch add up to $5.6 billion or the equivalent ...

Translated to English, haenyeo means «mermaid.» The divers are on average 70 years old. They spend several hours a day collecting mussels, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and snails on the seabed ...

"The Last of the Sea Women" is a documentary directed and co-produced by Korean American Sue Kim about haenyeo, or female divers on Jeju Island. She is now based in Portland, Oregon. Such women go ...

Jeju Island will commemorate the 93rd anniversary of the Jeju Haenyeo Anti-Japanese Movement, the largest women-led ...

Han Ji-Min played the young Min Soo-Yeon in the hit 2003 K-drama, also featuring stars like Song Hye-kyo and Lee Byung-hyun.

For the past 1000 years, on the remote South Korean island of Jeju, the sisterhood of Haenyeo divers have sustained themselves by hand-harvesting a variety of sea life. In a changing world where ...

Sue Kim’s documentary dives deep into the culture of the haenyeo, the South Korean deep sea divers who have been harvesting seafood for their communities for centuries. It can be seen on Sept.