Korea’s “sea women,” or “haenyeo,” could be disappearing as they face rising sea temperatures and life depletion underwater. The women are part of an ancient tradition of female breadwinners that began on Jeju Island. They played a vital role in the island’s recovery through colonialism and the Cold War.
But now, they are on the front lines of the climate crisis. Fewer women on the island are becoming haenyeo mainly because there’s less to harvest.
These 50- to 90-year-old women are capable of diving for up to seven hours a day, holding their breath for one to two minutes at a time. For some, free diving is easier than walking.
AJ+ producer Anna Kook’s grandmother was a sea woman before she died. She brings us along into the world of haenyeo as she learns what her grandmother’s life may have been like as a young woman.
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They are so cool!!! The way they help each other and care about the ocean’s health gives me hope to a sustainable future!🙏
This was an amazing story. I hope that the haenyeo can continue to dive for many years to come! 화이팅!
Another case where the government should budge in and promote this livelihood but kids these days, different world
Also Japan dumping nuclear waste water into the sea double whammy
God bless them
Just beautiful 😌. I hope the tradition keeps moving forward✊🏾💪🏾🙏🏽.
climate change is real
I think this is an excerpt from "Island Diaries".
Change is the only constant in life.
Respect for these women! 💜
need a face job
Modern so called feminists should learn from these women.
US was spreading so called peace here.
Great story. Its nice to see these women so happy together doing what they love. The sea lettuce- what causes it? It grows and kills local sea life? So how to remove it from the area? Have any scientific surveys been done in the area to discover a solution? Cheers
I was carelessly swimming in a river, yesterday. A river I visit several times a year, over the past 15 years. The water was warm, felt like a heated pool. I was still in the river until 8pm and even with the clouds turning gray, it was warm, this was the first time I had been able to enjoy the river this much because it was really cozy. Until, I watched this video, it dawned upon me, that the river shouldn’t be this warm and had never been this warm. Is it climate change? I’ve been here at higher temps in previous years and the river was cool. Now I’m concerned that eventually it will start to grow other things due to the heat.
제주 해녀문화를 널리알리고 잘보존하도록 노력할께요~
The 86 year old diver is SO BASED! She can barely walk yet, diving for hours on end is such an intrinsic part of her and her people's existence, failing legs ffs are no barrier. I have the feeling she has MANY good years left in her 😌
In the Western world everything needs to be marketed and especially when Whyte middle class and up people do it. This would be: 'the super feminist women of Holland'' or whatever.
But in all other countries in all of Africa and Asia etc. They are just cool women doing their thing. No marketing, no narcissistically self stroking, just being. Powerful, strong and proud.
In my fatherland Morocco so many women have done and do brave things without even knowing what the word 'feminist' is. Yet the whyte upper classes only look at the headscarves and label them 'oppressed'. The irony is stunning.
Especially the modern whyte millennial bourgeois feminists of the upper classes in the west do their best to even find something to be against, something to 'fight' against, only for themselves. Not for the marginalised, they dont care. Only about their own class and race groups. Ironically they are raised by the so called whyte men they hate, and are funded by them in interests and heritage. They don't say no to the money of those they love to rebel against. Its hilariously hypocritical and ugly.
Back to this video…the sounds alone warmed my heart. Beautiful to see people, being sisterly or brotherly. Wholesome.
Ok this is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen.
you dont understand the sea until youve seen corals dead and beaches w plastic… and the locals who throw that plastic in on their own beautiful beaches, and the other locals who grab a bag and go in the water even though they cant swim to collect the trash.
Here from TikTok
Amazing story and great reporting 👍