Why Are Korea’s Sea Women Disappearing? 

This was an amazing story. I hope that the haenyeo can continue to dive for many years to come! 화이팅!

They are so cool!!! The way they help each other and care about the ocean’s health gives me hope to a sustainable future!🙏

Beautiful story 🙂

Respect for these women! 💜

Their work is so meaningful :’) ❤

제주 해녀문화를 널리알리고 잘보존하도록 노력할께요~

Amazing!

Learned much Thankyou…strong women🥰

Just beautiful 😌. I hope the tradition keeps moving forward✊🏾💪🏾🙏🏽.

I think this is an excerpt from "Island Diaries".

Beautiful, strong & independence women 🎉🎉🎉 Theyre working hard to survival, to feed & raise their family.

Ok this is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen.

i want to hear more about this massacre in 1948. thank you for bringing that up even if it was kinda glazed over. it's important to us. i'm glad those people lives can be remembered for fighting against division of korea

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

Change is the only constant in life.

As someone of Korean descent: this could have been an amazing documentary if it weren’t for the grossly ignorant anti-American revisionist commentary. Would you rather South Korea be “united” under the Soviet installed dynasty of Kim Il Sung 🙄 or preferred Japan to have won WWII and occupy the Korean peninsula indefinitely?! 🤢 Spare me. What dishonor to all the incredible Korean war veterans.

Beautiful 😍

The title of this video meant to say "South Korea's"

I'm first. Ignore the older comment, that's from a bot

I remember “Welcome to Samdal-Ri” 🥹

Another case where the government should budge in and promote this livelihood but kids these days, different world

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 😌

God bless them

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.

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.

Amazing story and great reporting 👍

Ordinary people may be interested in the remarkable equipment, attire, and diving abilities of haenyeo (Korean female divers). However, haenyeo themselves possess a profound understanding of marine products, being able to distinguish between delicious and less flavorful ones, and they are skilled in determining the optimal harvesting times. The culture of life, where knowledge and experiences about marine products are passed down and accumulated over time through generations, is more significant to them than any specific gear or attire.

This was absolutely fascinating! Thanks for bringing this story to us.

Gimana caranya kerja begini ya ? Kebetulan saya juga sering cari ikan dengan cara seperti ini ❤

So no sharks there I’m guessing..that’s good..I wonder if they worry about any sea creatures that are in their element and the women that go into the sea?

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.

Have you looked at a present day globe or present day atlas? There is no more Korea. In 1948 Korea was partitioned into the brand new independent nations of North Korea & South Korea.