Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger.ĭespite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War and its aftermath, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother.
Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds.
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