"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 ...

Sitting at the front of the St. Paul library with the usual suspects for January’s book club meeting, I was struck by the common response to The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.

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 ...

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 ...

South Korean authorities detained 11 Vietnamese nationals on Wednesday after they were discovered hiding in a cargo truck at Jeju Port in an attempt to depart the island illegally. The group, ...