I moved to South Korea with no long-term plan. After 4 years of teaching, I've built an unconventional life on an island.
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Kylie Genter moved to South Korea after college to teach English. Now married, she balances several jobs while carrying on a generations-old tradition on Jeju Island.
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Kylie Genter moved to South Korea after graduating from college in New York with no career plan.Provided by Kylie GenterKylie Genter graduated from college with no career plan.At 22, she moved to South Korea to teach English and became fascinated by female freedivers who harvest seafood.Now, 37 and married, she spends around five days a week diving with women in their 70s and 80s.This-as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kylie Genter, 36, a Haenyeo diver on Jeju Island, South Korea. It's been edited for length and clarity.I'd been teaching English in South Korea for four years when I learned about the Haenyeo — female freedivers who harvest seafood without using modern equipment. I was interested. So, in the summer of 2018, I completed diving lessons with the hopes that maybe I could work with them one day.A few years later, my Korean husband, a scuba diver, read on a diving group chat that a small village on the southwestern side of Jeju Island was recruiting new divers.…