I read the book, “The Last of the CHEJU DRIVERS”. The Cheju Island is famous for beautiful nature. Something else is also famous. Have you ever heard “haenyos”? It is a group of female divers. They dive in the sea in order to take seafood. To my surprise, they dive with nothing and stay in the sea over 5 minutes. Diving is their work. They can sell the seafood they caught at a high price, so they dive. However this work is so dangerous! That is why haenyos is decreasing. The youngest one is 45 years old and the oldest one is 75 years old. This tradition of Cheju is being extinct.
I’m sorry that this tradition is being extinct… I hope that the new tradition will come into existence.
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Reference
Waring , R. (2008). The Last of the CHEJU DIVERS. Boston: Mapping Specialists, Ltd..
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