A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.
A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island, which sits some 50 or 60 miles off the coast of South Korea. Before the vessel had even ...
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Legendary 'women of the sea' in South Korea freedive well into their 80s. A new study hints at how.
A group of women on South Korea's largest island, Jeju, follow a unique tradition to put food on the table: They freedive to depths of nearly 33 feet (10 meters) without using any special equipment.
An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...
Cheil Seoul has teamed up with the Jeju Institute of Korean Medicine to launch a new safety system inspired by the ...
Known as “haenyeo” or “sea women” in Korean, these women can free-dive as deep as 10m and stay underwater for up to two ...
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