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Haenyeo Museum, Hado-ri

Grandmothers who free-dive for a living.

Haenyeo Museum, Hado-ri

제주해녀박물관 · Gujwa-eup, Jeju

Jeju's haenyeo are women who free-dive for seafood without air tanks, many still working in their 70s and 80s. Their culture is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list.

Say it in Korean해녀 haenyeo · woman diver
Local tipLook for restaurants run by haenyeo and eat the sea urchin and abalone caught that morning.
Getting thereBus from Jeju City, about 1 hour.
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Photo: Idobi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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