In Jeju Island, a community of women, some aged in their 80s, goes diving to gather shellfish for a living. The Jeju haenyeo (female divers) harvest up to seven hours a day, 90 days of the year ...

Haenyeo are women divers in Jeju Island who collect a variety of sea ... private cultural institutions to support exhibitions in Korea. The center in Kazakhstan, in cooperation with the Museum ...

The Jeju Haenyeo are professional underwater divers who do not rely on apparatus to harvest marine lives in Jeju Island. They realized that the sea is a Mother Nature to be tendered and preserved ...

Although much of that trip was spent visiting relatives in Seoul, the filmmaker’s parents took her and her brother for fun to Jeju island ... she saw the women divers known as the haenyeo ...

A group of older women from Fukushima, Japan, traveled to Jeju Island to offer an apology Tuesday to "haenyeo," Korea’s traditional female divers, for Tokyo’s decision to release into the ...

Experts cite series' theme, pacing, motifs as reminiscent of literary classics 'The Little Princess,' 'Daddy-Long-Legs' ...

Soon-ja Hong, 69, is one of the female divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. The women are known as the Haenyeo — "women of the sea." Starting in the 17th century, the island's women took over the ...

Jeju Island boasts South Korea's highest mountain, Hallasan, a dormant volcano that towers nearly 6,400 feet above sea level.

Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes together comprise three sites that make up 18,846 ha. It includes Geomunoreum, regarded as the finest lava tube system of caves anywhere, with its multicoloured ...