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An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated community of women: the Haenyeo. These women dive year-round off Jeju Island, ...
Women in South Korea have been found to have the lowest probability of dying from chronic diseases before the age of 80 ...
South Korea’s spy agency says the young daughter of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un was assessed to have solidified what it ...
Since joining the OECD in 1996, South Korea has held an unenviable distinction – the highest gender pay gap among member countries – without interruption. Recent figures from the OECD show that South ...
A group of female South Korean free divers on Jeju Island, known as the Haenyeo, exit the water after catching marine snails in November 2015. Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images On Jeju Island, 50 miles ...
The case of three South Korean family members who went missing following a trip to the Grand Canyon has made the news in their home country. The Arizona Republic found multiple South Korean online ...
How do they do it? For centuries, a community of women on South Korea's Jeju Island have been diving without oxygen, holding their breath for several minutes as they harvest seafood from deep under ...
South Korea says it has reached a deal with the U.S. for the release of South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid ...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Thursday that last week's "perplexing" immigration raid at a Hyundai electric ...