Translated to English, haenyeo means «mermaid.» The divers are on average 70 years old. They spend several hours a day collecting mussels, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and snails on the seabed ...

Fishing (particularly commercial fishing) is considered a male-dominated realm but it turns out that the 3 million tonnes of fish per year that women catch add up to $5.6 billion or the equivalent ...

SEOGWIPO, Jeju Island — While the haenyeo, Korea's legendary female divers of Jeju Island, often go unrecognized in their own country, there is a Polish woman who has taken the plunge ...

"The Last of the Sea Women" is a documentary directed and co-produced by Korean American Sue Kim about haenyeo, or female divers on Jeju Island. She is now based in Portland, Oregon. Such women go ...

They’re formally known as “haenyeo,” but sometimes referred to ... sea urchin or sea stone pineapple they harvest is collected while the divers hold their breath. It’s dangerous work ...

For the past 1000 years, on the remote South Korean island of Jeju, the sisterhood of Haenyeo divers have sustained themselves by hand-harvesting a variety of sea life. In a changing world where ...

Movie"A look at the life of the last generation of Jeju Island's haenyeo: female free-divers, most of them now ranging in age from their 60s to their 80s, who brave the sea to harvest seafood from ...

Sue Kim’s documentary dives deep into the culture of the haenyeo, the South Korean deep sea divers who have been harvesting seafood for their communities for centuries. It can be seen on Sept.