"My parents took me and my brother down to Jeju Island — Jeju’s like the ... "These are 70- and 80-year-old women, so you see them above sea level walking, and they’re hunched over and ...

Known as haenyeo (which literally translates to “sea women”), these marvels free ... for the first time when I was 8. We were ...

She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...

In “The Last of the Sea Women,” an extraordinary band of ... Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ...

The haenyeo live on Jeju Island in South Korea ... The documentary film «The Last Women of the Sea» by director Sue Kim was released in September. The film follows the haenyeo in their day ...

Ms Han’s book and her Nobel prize are “catalysts” for renewed interest in the tragedy, says Chon Yeong-mi of the Jeju History ...

Three Vietnamese nationals have been rescued in the capsize of a fishing vessel off the coast of Jeju Island on February 12 ...

Sitting at the front of the St. Paul library with the usual suspects for January’s book club meeting, I was struck by the common response to The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See.

Five crew members were rescued, two were presumed dead and three were missing Thursday after a 32-ton fishing boat capsized off the coast of Jeju Island on Wednesday. A 32-ton fishing vessel carrying ...

Residents of Jeju Island have rolled up their sleeves to designate the Indo ... "The endangered Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, which has lived harmoniously with the haenyeo (female sea divers) in ...