asahi.com : haenyo The tourists who clamber down the precarious rocky staircase at Jeongbang on the outskirts of Sogwipo are usually here to see the waterfall, which is said to be the only one in Asia to drop directly into the sea.
But on a calm day, if you look out from the rocks beside the waterfall, you can see a more human part of Cheju Island's unique landscape.
Bobbing around on the surface of the sea, attached to white floats, portly figures in rubber suits bask in the bay. These are the diving women of Cheju, known as haenyo. Armed with flippers and hooks, haenyo have fished these waters since ancient times