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Haenyeo is more recent? Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier tha

Haenyeo is more recent? Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier than Ama.

resoluteteeth 5y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier than Ama. Your link doesn't appear to actually say that? > The first mention of female divers in literature does not come until the 17th century, when a monograph of Jeju geography describes them as jamnyeo (literally "diving women").[2]: 101
- jinwoo68 5y ago
  What I meant was that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says "Jeju's diving tradition dates back to 434 AD" while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving) says "Records of female pearl divers, or ama, date back as early as AD 927". I think both date them using written records and I think they both started earlier than those records. So probably they started at around the same time? I really don't know. I just wanted to point out that the OP's argument doesn't seem valid.
- lifthrasiir 5y ago
  There are three different "first mentions" of Korean diving women in the recorded Korean history: - Descriptions of Jeju's Natural Features (제주풍토기, 濟州風土記) is written in 1628--1635 and contains the first direct mention of diving women and a term for them (jamnyeo). - Jeju, the kingdom of Tamna at that time, was annexed by the mainland Goryeo in 1105. The new governor Yoon Eung-gyun (윤응균, 尹應均) issued a decree to forbid men and women to dive together, suggesting diving women existed back then. - Jeju was well known for its goods for the king since at least 503 (according to the History of Three Kingdoms [삼국사기, 三國史記]), so there must have been some divers in Jeju, probably both men and women inferred from later records.

Haenyeo is more recent? Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier than Ama.

resoluteteeth 5y ago

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says it started earlier than Ama. Your link doesn't appear to actually say that? > The first mention of female divers in literature does not come until the 17th century, when a monograph of Jeju geography describes them as jamnyeo (literally "diving women").[2]: 101

jinwoo68 5y ago
What I meant was that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo says "Jeju's diving tradition dates back to 434 AD" while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama_(diving) says "Records of female pearl divers, or ama, date back as early as AD 927". I think both date them using written records and I think they both started earlier than those records. So probably they started at around the same time? I really don't know. I just wanted to point out that the OP's argument doesn't seem valid.
lifthrasiir 5y ago
There are three different "first mentions" of Korean diving women in the recorded Korean history: - Descriptions of Jeju's Natural Features (제주풍토기, 濟州風土記) is written in 1628--1635 and contains the first direct mention of diving women and a term for them (jamnyeo). - Jeju, the kingdom of Tamna at that time, was annexed by the mainland Goryeo in 1105. The new governor Yoon Eung-gyun (윤응균, 尹應均) issued a decree to forbid men and women to dive together, suggesting diving women existed back then. - Jeju was well known for its goods for the king since at least 503 (according to the History of Three Kingdoms [삼국사기, 三國史記]), so there must have been some divers in Jeju, probably both men and women inferred from later records.