haenyeo

noun

1. A female diver in South Korea who works harvesting molluscs, seaweed, etc.

   The haenyeos have a system where they can harvest the nine species of aquatic organisms in a sustainable manner.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Korean 해녀 (haenyeo, literally “sea woman”)

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry haenyeo (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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