A woman from Jiangsu Province, China, mistakenly paid 60,000 yuan (US$8,300) for a one-night stay at an Airbnb on South Korea’s Jeju Island after confusing the Chinese yuan symbol with the ...

Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to the ocean floor and collect shellfish ...

As she was trying to write her first novel at 26, she rented a modest room on Jeju, overlooking the water, from an elderly woman who lived downstairs from her. During a walk to the post office one ...

Currents spread the treated water to Jeju Island and elsewhere ... a child and recently spending a great deal of time with the women as an adult, Kim remains in awe of them.