"My parents took me and my brother down to Jeju Island — Jeju’s like the ... "These are 70- and 80-year-old women, so you see them above sea level walking, and they’re hunched over and ...
Known as haenyeo (which literally translates to “sea women”), these marvels free ... for the first time when I was 8. We were ...
In “The Last of the Sea Women,” an extraordinary band of ... Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ...
The haenyeo live on Jeju Island in South Korea ... The documentary film «The Last Women of the Sea» by director Sue Kim was released in September. The film follows the haenyeo in their day ...