After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for harvesting seafood from the ocean floor without scuba gear, photographer Peter Ash Lee said one ...

The Jeju Haenyeo Culture Association held the international cultural exchange event "Breath, Connecting the Sea - Records of Gamun Haenyeo" photo exhibition on June 11 at the exhibition hall of the ...

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A foreigner sparked outrage online after a video of him hugging and kissing a statue honouring Jeju's haenyeo, or female divers, went viral, news reports said yesterday.

Jeju Island's haenyeo (female divers) recently welcomed a foreign member. Kylie Genter, an American from a small town in upstate New York, on April 14 was officially designated a haenyeo in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the island of Jeju, resourceful haenyeo 'sea-women' have braved riptides harvesting urchins and other shellfish to put food on ...