12 missing after fishing boat sinks off Jeju Island (ATTN: UPDATES with divers searching underwater, other details; ADDS photo) JEJU, South Korea, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- Two people died and 12 others ...

Old letters are treasured windows into the past. They lack the brutal honesty and starkness of diary entries, instead ...

the Coast Guard said it received reports that a 32-tonne fishing boat carrying seven people and a 29-tonne vessel with eight crew members were stranded on a rock in waters off Jeju Island around 9 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fred Dustin’s letters from Jeju Island, penned some 50 years ago ... Jeju, declared Dustin, had “the finest and most attractive [scuba] diving waters to be found anywhere in the Pacific ...