On a Sunday afternoon in December, Irvin Seo, A&S '14, glances at his phone and grumbles because it's 4:12. To be precise, because it's 4:12 already. For the last hour, Seo has been at work in the ...

The team behind one of Baltimore’s newest pop-up restaurants will bring its Korean eats to Charles Village every week in October. Haenyo, a pop-up restaurant serving Korean cuisine that launched this ...

Baltimore-based Korean pop-up Haenyo is making the journey north to Philadelphia. The itinerant outfit — named for the strong-willed women divers of Korea’s Jeju province — will take up residence at ...

Haenyo—perhaps the closest thing the world has to real-life mermaids—are a dwindling group of women divers, or "sea women," who exist in Korea. They free-dive for sea flora and mollusks, traditionally ...

Baltimore-based pop-up Haenyo has been bringing the very best Maryland harvest cooked in the Korean tradition to choice restaurants in Philly, DC and Baltimore for the past few years—and this week, ...

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A naval base being built on Jeju Island threatens to destroy the livelihoods of the iconic women shellfish divers and raise levels of rape and prostitution in the surrounding villages. On her return ...

The Korean tradition of deep-sea diving for oysters, sea cucumbers, abalones, sea urchins, and squid dates back to the 5th century. Originally, it was a male-dominated profession, not all that ...

On the 24th (Saturday), KBS 2TV's 'Salim Men Season 2' (hereafter 'Salim Nam') will feature Park Seo-jin's younger sister Hyo-jeong as she embarks on a romance filled with excitement in Samcheonpo. On ...

Seongsan, Korea–There’s a feeding frenzy happening but it’s on land, not in the water. “Receive the money! Receive the money!” a woman in a wetsuit yells as she squats, decisively placing a glistening ...