You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The INSIDER Summary: • Haenyo are Korean women who deep-sea dive without any equipment to harvest ...

One of this year’s acclaimed Oscar-contending documentaries goes below the waves with a remarkable community of women free divers off the coast of South Korea. They’re formally known as “haenyeo,” but ...

From an interview conducted by Youngmi Mayer with Jung Won Oh, Ko Jun Ja, and Mun Yeon Ok, female divers on Korea’s Jeju Island, published in Lucky Peach: The Gender Issue. Haenyo gather shellfish, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of women around 70 years old laugh and sing on a beach in Jeju, an island off South Korea, preparing to spend the day ...