In Jeju Island, a community of women, some aged in their 80s, goes diving to gather shellfish for a living. The Jeju haenyeo (female divers) harvest up to seven hours a day, 90 days of the year ...

A group of older women from Fukushima, Japan, traveled to Jeju Island to offer an apology Tuesday to "haenyeo," Korea’s traditional female divers, for Tokyo’s decision to release into the ...

South Korea’s legendary sea divers who have been making waves on Jeju Island for generations. Known as real-life mermaids, these indomitable women, now mostly in their 60s, 70s, and 80s ...

The Jeju Haenyeo are professional underwater divers who do not rely on apparatus to harvest marine lives in Jeju Island. They realized that the sea is a Mother Nature to be tendered and preserved ...

Although much of that trip was spent visiting relatives in Seoul, the filmmaker’s parents took her and her brother for fun to Jeju island ... she saw the women divers known as the haenyeo ...

Jeju island in South Korea is often called "the Hawaii of Korea," for its beautiful scenery and unique culture. WSJ's Jaeyeon Woo reports on Jeju's volcanic formations and women sea divers.

Soon-ja Hong, 69, is one of the female divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. The women are known as the Haenyeo — "women of the sea." Starting in the 17th century, the island's women took over the ...

If you're in the mood for traveling and healing, here are five must-try experiences when visiting this beautiful island in South Korea. Planning a trip to Jeju? Here's some good news for Filipino ...