"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 ...

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is ...

Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish ...

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 ...