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Haenyeo (Korean: 해녀; lit. sea women) are female divers in the South Korean province of Jeju, whose livelihood consists of harvesting a variety of mollusks, seaweed, and other sea life from the ocean.
Dec 26, 2023 · Photographer Peter Ash Lee’s book “The Last Mermaid” documents a group of women living in South Korea renowned for their abilities to freedive and harvest seafood.
The Haenyeo (women divers), some in their 80s, dive to collect seaweed, shellfish and other seafood in a unique way (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO).
Nov 2, 2016 · Haenyo are Korean women who deep-sea dive to harvest seafood in a century-old practice, and often described as mermaids.
Oct 13, 2016 · Mijoo Kim, a New York-based photographer, decided to document South Korea’s fearless “Sea Women” in an intimate series called The Mother of the Sea. Referred to locally as Haenyo, these intrepid elderly women swim up to depths of 65ft (20 metres) to the ocean floor where they collect sea abalones, urchins, sea cucumbers and squid.
Mar 29, 2015 · For hundreds of years, women in the South Korean island province of Jeju have made their living harvesting seafood by hand from the ocean floor. Known as haenyeo, or sea women, they use no...
Dec 21, 2023 · The Haenyeo are best known as the female divers from Jeju Island. They dive into waters twenty meters deep to catch fresh seafood from the depths of the ocean.
