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 ...

The haenyeo, all women, dive for up to four minutes without oxygen, harvesting delicacies from the sea floor to support their ...

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.

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 ...

BUSAN, South Korea, Oct. 5 (UPI) --Sue Kim's The Last of the Sea Women opens with stunning scenes of a free diver descending to the sea floor, underwater cinematography that would not be out of ...

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 ...