The haenyeo live on Jeju Island in South Korea, 80 kilometers from the mainland. Translated to English, haenyeo means «mermaid.» The divers ... to the 17th century. At the time, women and ...

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 ... saw the women divers known as the haenyeo, who ...

Jeju-do is the ... for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish, octopus, and urchins that they sell. The divers are in their sixties ...

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 ...