There, she saw the women divers known as the haenyeo ... According to Kim, her parents moved from South Korea to the Detroit area for her mother’s work in the medical field.

Some 30,000 of these breath-holding divers, called ama, are employed in daily foraging for food on the bottom of the sea. Their performance is of particular interest to the physiologist ...

South Korea won its 10th consecutive gold medal in women's team archery in a nail-biting shoot-off as three first-time Olympians — Lim Shi-Hyeon, Nam Su-Hyeon and Jeon Hun-Young — held off China 5-4 ...