Doha: Qatar and South Korea s diving heritage takes center stage in the Jeju Haenyeo Exhibition unveiled on Sunday at Katara, ...

The Apple TV+ doc 'The Last of the Sea Women' follows haenyeo — senior citizen divers that sell seafood on Jeju Island.

T he Last of the Sea Women (now streaming on Apple TV+) profiles the haenyeo – Korean for “sea women” – a group of female ...

Diving without oxygen ... Where in the mid-1900s 20,000 of these women could be found working Jeju’s coast, now there are fewer than 2,000. Theirs is, The Last of the Sea Women tells us through ...

These are the stories of South Korea’s 'mermaids', who for centuries have braved the harsh conditions to harvest shellfish.

The story of Jeju’s women, who braved the harsh forces of nature for the sake of their families, is celebrated not just in ...

In fact, Jeju is a tourist hotspot – an island off the south coast of South Korea that’s home to 680,000 people, but attracts ...

For a few centuries diving has been solely a female occupation on Jeju, which led to the island’s semi-matriarchal culture. “As an 8-year-old girl, I felt like I hadn't seen Korean women show ...

These are the haenyeo divers of South Korea, a community of women from Jeju Island who have been free-diving (without oxygen) to harvest seafood for centuries. Now, with most of them in their 60s ...

The Jeju Haenyeo exhibition opened Monday at Katara Cultural Village, featuring 32 artworks that highlight the remarkable ...

Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju Island ... in “Sea Women.” There is no mention of how such diving hereabouts ...

Doha: Qatar and South Korea's diving heritage takes center stage in the“Jeju Haenyeo” exhibition unveiled on Sunday at Katara, in cooperation with the Korean Embassy in Qatar. The exhibition ...