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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.
- Suyin Haynes
Aug 10, 2023 · In December 2018, Peter Ash Lee travelled to Jeju Island – a tropical province nicknamed the ‘Hawaii of Korea’ – to photograph a community of women divers, called the Haenyo, that have, for centuries, been the main breadwinners for their families.
Haenyeo [a] (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.
Haenyeo - Seeing the Incredible Women Divers of Jeju Island - South Korea! 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.
Mar 23, 2021 · Exhibition curator Daina Fletcher takes a deep-dive into the museum's new exhibition Haenyeo - The sea women of Jeju Island. This photographic exhibition celebrating a unique community of...
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- Australian National Maritime Museum
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...
