SMNTY Classics: The Legendary Haenyeo
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Haenyeo, or sea women, from Jeju Island in South Korea are a community of respected older women who free dive for sea creatures for food. We dive into their long history, traditions, examples, dangers, culture and future in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.6 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.8 | And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:45.3 | And today we are bringing back an episode that I think about kind of often, actually, on the legendary Hanyo, are women in South Korea who have a lot of respect, older women, specifically, for diving for sea creatures as food. |
| 0:47.8 | And I just thought it was a fascinating topic. |
| 0:48.7 | It is. |
| 0:57.6 | Interestingly, I was watching one of my new favorite YouTube series, not a sponsor, Dirt, and they went to Japan, |
| 1:04.1 | and there is a version of Hanyo, a woman there who teaches them how to dive to get all these things as well. |
| 1:08.7 | And she is just as gruff as the Hanyos, the Korean divers. |
| 1:09.9 | So it was really interesting. |
| 1:11.8 | But also I discovered there's an actual restaurant named after that in New York, which we might have to go and check out. They got a Michelin |
| 1:17.1 | shout out. Are they named after specifically? Yes, after the women who dive in JG Island. Also, |
| 1:26.8 | yeah, you and I talked about the fact that I just recently watched. |
| 1:29.6 | It was last year when life gives you tangerines, which is a Korean drama, and it starts off as the mother, |
| 1:37.3 | one of the main mother characters, doing everything she can for her daughter, including |
| 1:41.1 | keeping her out of that field because it's so dangerous. |
| 1:45.6 | But, yeah, there's a lot. |
| 1:47.3 | There is a lot. |
| 1:48.8 | So we thought we would bring this one back and please enjoy. |
| 1:57.7 | Hey, this is Annie. |
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