Haenyeo is a traditional female diver from Jeju Island, South Korea, who fish and hunt in a superb freediving style.
Without wearing oxygen cylinders and any underwater oxygen supply equipment, you can hold your breath underwater for two minutes and dive to a depth of 20 meters.
In the 17th century, in order to fill the shortage of male labor on the island, they took the form of work in the form of catching the sea.
Gather prey in the water, such as abalone, octopus, crustaceans, and fish up sea gifts with your bare hands.
Supporting half of the sky, Haenyeo needs to dive hundreds of times per job, often depending on the season and weather conditions, and professional haenyeo catches about 60% of Jeju's seafood, so it is also known as Jeju's mother.
However, the weather at sea is also fickle, long-term diving, cold water can cause headaches, earaches and arthritis and other diving diseases, they can only use analgesics to relieve pain.
Even with this pain, for more than three hundred years, Jeju Haenyeo has been engaged in this high-risk, low-income hard work, with all the income from labor subsidizing the family, and even Haenyeo has become the main breadwinner of the family on Jeju Island, South Korea, where patriarchy is prevalent.
But after entering the 21st century, there are fewer and fewer "Jeju sea women" who live from sea fishing, and most young girls are reluctant to engage in such high-risk jobs, and most of the existing sea women are over 50 years old, and perhaps in a dozen years, this professional woman will disappear from Jeju Island.