On the 30th, at the Suwon-ri Office in Hallim-eup, Jeju City, Kim Yun-hong, the village chief, delivered childbirth incentives to five couples who came carrying seven babies. The total amount of ...

Jeju haenyeo (female divers) are rapidly decreasing due to aging. Jeju Province announced on the 20th that a complete survey ...

South Korea’s ageing haenyeo still free-dive without oxygen for several hours—a real-time app from Cheil alerts nearby divers within seconds in medical emergencies.

50 miles off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is Jeju Island: home to a unique sea culture and a celebrated community of women, the Haenyeo. Haenyeo literally translates to 'sea women'— ...

The all-female Korean Haenyeo divers show genetic adaptations to cold-water diving involving their blood pressure and cold tolerance. It's "like... The all-female free divers of Jeju Island have a ...

Everyone from Jeju — both the Haenyeo and the non-divers — had basically the same genes, meaning that the people of this island appear to have been genetically sculpted by generations of divers. "What ...

A couple of years ago, Melissa Ilardo found herself aboard a motorboat traversing the ocean around Jeju Island, which sits some 50 or 60 miles off the coast of South Korea. Before the vessel had even ...