The Jeju Haenyeo Festival, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage designation, is set to take place. Jeju Province announced on the 9th that it will host the ...

Jeju’s haenyeo culture is marking 10 years since its inscription on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural ...

After spending several days with the Haenyeo, a group of women on South Korea’s Jeju Island renowned for harvesting seafood from the ocean floor without scuba gear, photographer Peter Ash Lee said one ...

I had the privilege of talking about how the world sees the Jeju Haenyeo, the free-diving women of Jeju Island in South Korea, at th ...

The Haenyeo - "women of the sea" - were added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Humanity list in 2016. Numbers are ...

A festival where you can experience the "haenyeo culture," listed as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, will be held. Beyond trying out the haenyeo experience, visitors can hear stories ...

For centuries, the Haenyeo, South Korea's legendary "sea women", have ventured into the cold waters surrounding Jeju Island armed with nothing more than a knife, a floating buoy and their ability to ...

The Jeju Haenyeo Culture Association held the international cultural exchange event "Breath, Connecting the Sea - Records of Gamun Haenyeo" photo exhibition on June 11 at the exhibition hall of the ...

Jin So-hee had to suffer to join the centuries-old tradition of South Korean women diving to harvest seafood. - Female independence - For centuries, haenyeo have held a distinctive place in Korean ...

Haenyeo spend their working lives diving in the waters around Jeju Island, where the average sea temperature is only 13-14°C throughout the year.Unlike modern commercial divers, they traditionally ...