Korean-born journalism & film student Elly Park produced a documentary in 2008 about the Haenyo- the working freedivers of Korea. A YouTube length cut is up there:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBb-oofr-7A&feature=related]YouTube - SEA WOMEN - 8 minutes cut[/ame]
and if you go to her page on the NYU website you can see the longer version:
"Sea Women : Part 4" by Filmmaker Elly Park - BFOC: mtvU's Best Film on Campus
I kind of like the edited-down YouTube version better, possibly because it has a greater proportion of dive footage. It seems, though, that a unique culture of women is on the decline- the Sea Women themselves are discouraging their children and grandchildren from joining their community, and with the youngest diver being 41 at the time, their guess that the Haenyo only have 30 years left is probably correct.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBb-oofr-7A&feature=related]YouTube - SEA WOMEN - 8 minutes cut[/ame]
and if you go to her page on the NYU website you can see the longer version:
"Sea Women : Part 4" by Filmmaker Elly Park - BFOC: mtvU's Best Film on Campus
I kind of like the edited-down YouTube version better, possibly because it has a greater proportion of dive footage. It seems, though, that a unique culture of women is on the decline- the Sea Women themselves are discouraging their children and grandchildren from joining their community, and with the youngest diver being 41 at the time, their guess that the Haenyo only have 30 years left is probably correct.