Tag: mermaids
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…