July 22nd, 2013
12:15 AM ET
I'm sitting in a tiny, open-air seafood restaurant in Yeonhwari fishing village in Busan, South Korea, waiting for my breakfast. In the distance, on the rocky shore, a local haenyeo ("sea woman") is picking through her morning's catch. "She's late," says a fellow patron when she notices me staring. "All the other haenyeo have already finished their diving and delivered their catch." The subject of many documentaries, they're a dying breed - an estimated 20,000 haenyeo still work in South Korea - due to the intense physical difficulties of the job. While most haenyeo usually dive about five meters and stay underwater for 30-second intervals, many are capable of diving as deep as 20 meters and staying underwater for as long as two minutes. Read - Mermaids, abalone and a very local breakfast in Busan |
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Also, I remember running over eels and frogs in the street while driving through a swarm of dragonflys. Weird place.
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Looks familiar. This place is about 100 miles east of where I was stationed in 2004. Overpopulated country, but great food.
Great read. But I'm not eating live octopus.
Well. You should try some. It's really good Ü