When Young-sook and Mi-ja return to Jeju Island, they see that the atmosphere has changed dramatically from the presence of war. While working in Vladistock, the girls save money and purchase presents for their future husbands. Throughout their developing friendship their island is occupied by the Japanese, and the situation worsens during World War II, at which time the young women decide to leave Jeju Island to do leaving home water work in Vladistock. From that day forward Mi-ja and Young-sook are inseparable. The two girls learn to dive together and work side-by-side in the fields with Young-sook’s mother, Sun-sil, until, one day diving, Sun-sil drowns.
The story flashes back and traces the beginnings of the friendship between Young-sook, who is the daughter of the leader of the Sut-dong diving collective, and Mi-ja, an orphan girl. When the woman shows Young-sook a picture of a young woman in a bathing costume, Young-sook denies knowing the woman, but she does in fact recognize her as her longtime best friend, Mi-ja, with whom she had a falling out decades earlier.
The story begins in the present, when Young-sook, an old, retired haenyeo, is approached by a woman named Janet, and her daughter, Clara, on the beach. The Island of Sea Women is the story of the friendship of two haenyeo, Korean sea divers on Jeju Island. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: See, Lisa.
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