Haenyo | Udo
July 9, 2009
Jeju is a gorgeous island, but Udo is even nicer if you want to really beat the crowds. Min and I took the ferry over and drove around for the afternoon. There’s a great white sand beach and some really good restaurants. Udo was where I tried galchi jorim (갈치조림), a spicy horsetail soup. It was also where I snapped the shot below of a traditional woman diver called haenyo. Haenyo are women who earn their living as divers, swimming up to twenty meters beneath the surface to find valuables for sale, and they do so without any SCUBA gear or underwater breathing equipment.
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