"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trying to make sense of its haunting images — thousands of forbidding, dark tree trunks standing on a snow-covered hill as the sea encroaches — led her to Jeju, a southern island with ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...