Saturday 7 February 2015

Old Documentary

Here is an article about the female divers on Jeju island, the haenyeo (해녀):

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/south-koreas-women-sea-have-free-dived-abalone-17th-century-180954103/

It contains a video that is interesting from an historical perspective, as the 24 minute film is 40 years old.  It shows what life was like in a small fishing village on Jeju in 1975.

Watch the documentary . . .

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