"I've dived for over 50 years, and this is the first time I've seen sea urchins dried up dead in the water. The sea pineapples are dead, the conch are dead […] now there's nothing in the sea.

The haenyeo live on Jeju Island in South Korea, 80 kilometers from the mainland. Translated to English, haenyeo means «mermaid.» The divers are on average 70 years old. They spend several hours ...

“Korean food terms are expected to continue being added to the dictionary.” The words “haenyeo” (female divers), “ahjumma” (middle-aged woman), and “bingsu” (shaved ice ...

Recently, the price of dried seaweed has risen, but in Jeollanam-do, a total of 1,200 tons of raw seaweed has been discarded ...