Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish ...

Another attraction of the island is the haenyo (pronounced HAIN-yo), the women who dive year-round for shellfish and edible seaweed off the shores. The seabeds of southern Korea and southern Japan ...

Although much of that trip was spent visiting relatives in Seoul, the filmmaker’s parents took her and her brother for fun to Jeju island ... diving, we still dive. It’s in our bones. We are ...