Lessons from Jeju
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13mins
Directed by
Monika McClure,
Nicole Gormley,
Alex Lowther,
Maile Schulbach
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Starring
Kimi Werner,
Seven months pregnant and apprehensive of the effect motherhood would have on her career as a professional freediver, Kimi Werner took a trip to the island of Jeju in South Korea to meet her heroes, the haenyeo – a group of freediving and fishing women often regarded as Korea’s first working mother’s whose culture dates back centuries.