Angry 'sea women' take to street

AI핵심 요약

• ·Dressed in their diving gear, a group of "haenyeo," or female divers, from Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, gathered outside the headquarters of Ssangyong Engineering & Construction in Seoul on Monday, demanding compensation for what they say are years of lost income caused by a harbor renovation project.
• ·The divers claim that pollution from construction at Homigot Port and changes to ocean currents caused by a newly built breakwater have sharply reduced marine life, leading to steep declines in catches of abalone, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and seaweed.
• ·They say the project has devastated the fishing grounds they have relied on for decades.