Kylie Genter is the only foreigner in South Korea to hold a haenyeo license. The feat has turned her into something of a ...

Haenyeo Museum (Museum of Women Divers) - A haenyeo is a woman diver who gathers marine products for a living, and Jeju is home to the largest number of them in Korea. The women, who are also called ...

A group of Korea.net Honorary Reporters, K-Influencers and foreign correspondents from July 21-23 toured Jeju Island to explore the culture and history of the island's famed haenyeo (female divers), ...

Michelin-starred chefs from Italy once visited Korean haenyeo (female divers) on the variety show *‘Welcome! Korea Is Your ...

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea, Sept. 7 (UPI) --As the once inaccessible Arctic grows as a region of military concern under the effects of global warming, the U.S. military is confronted with the problem of ...

The Jeju Haenyeo exhibition opened Monday at Katara Cultural Village, featuring 32 artworks that highlight the remarkable similarities between Qatar’s pearl divers and South Korea’s Jeju Haenyeo women ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Each of the elderly women utters a distinctive cry as they surface around me from the bitterly cold East China Sea, ...

"Haenyeo," or female divers on Jeju Island, are symbols of strength and tenacity. They make a living by diving to depths of up to 10 meters without oxygen masks to harvest seafood such as abalone and ...

This photo taken on Dec. 15, 2023 shows the tools used by Haenyeo in Jeju Island, South Korea. Haenyeo refers to female divers who dive into the sea to gather various shellfish and seaweed without ...

On a Korean island, female divers plunge into the ocean’s depth to catch, cook and serve unique sea-to-table cuisine. Cast off the southern tip of South Korea, Jeju Island rises from the Pacific’s ...