Brenda Paik Sunoo

Books: Moon Tides: Book Tour: Jeju: Gifts to friends and haenyeo

  • Left to right: Kang Deok-kyo, haenyeo; author and Kang's son, Im Myeong-ho, founder of Haenyeo School in Gwideok village.
  • Suh Sun-sil, shaman in Gimnyeong village.
  • Book celebration and dinner for professional women of Jeju, hosted by Dr. Anne Hilty, cultural health psychologist and Jeju Weekly writer.
  • Ahn Hye-kyoung, Art Space C
  • Hong Suk-ja, a former haenyeo, presenting the author with a replica of the divers' traditional clothing before rubber suits.
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  • Right: Jung Dong-seon, a haenyeo living and working in Gimnyeong village.
  • Author with a group of haenyeo, including Im Seong-ok (right)--one of the few male divers on Jeju Island. Middle front row: Cho Jeong-sun, one of the haenyeo of Sagye village.
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  • Translator/interpreter Han Young-sook shares {quote}Moon Tides{quote} with her mother.
  • Left to right: Han Young-sook with painter and photographer Paek Ja-won and Ko Kyung-hee.
  • Artist Hong Jin-suk, who provided illustrations of her woodcuts in {quote}Moon Tides.{quote}
  • Arirang radio DJ and broadcaster Jenie Hahn interviews Italian journalist Alessandro Ursic, and Moon Tides author about their impressions of Jeju culture and the haenyeo.
  • Woo Sun-deok, a haenyeo widow who lives and works in Jongdal village.
  • Translator/interpreter Han Young-sook with haenyeo Oh Jeong-ja, of Woljeong village.
  • Left to right: filmmaker Jane Jin Kaisen, Ahn Hye-kyoung (Art Space C), filmmaker Guston Sondin-Kung and artist Koh Gil-chun
  • Presentation to the Director of the Haenyeo Museum in Hado village.
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