South Korea’s ‘sea women’ seek justice after marine habitat devastated by harbor work

Mongabay
Sep 4, 2026, 6:30 am106 ptsTrending
GUMAN-RI, South Korea — This fishing village, on the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, is filled with scars. Every summer, typhoons rumble in from the Pacific Ocean to snap trees and flip fishing boats. Huge ships, including a 4,000-ton cargo vessel in 2005, have sunk or run aground on the rocky coast,…

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