Haenyeo numbers fall. Udo queues grow. The warm-water window is still short. Those three facts are the present.
The outlook is more working-coast closures to guests and a scuba map that stays honest about winter.
Trends
- Heritage tourism pressure — A living job under a plaque.
- Weekend ferry crowds — Udo as a capacity problem.
- Drysuit winter programmes — A smaller, truer scuba.
- Marine debris on west coasts — A visible, local fight.
- Warming water talk — Species shifts, still not a tropic.
Conservation
- Working-diver welfare — Insurance, ageing, catch.
- Trampling on Udo shallows — The snorkel wound.
- Boat pressure on islets — Munseom is not infinite.
- Land UNESCO vs sea manners — The same island, two listings.
Access
- Who gets the summer boat — Weekend scarcity.
- Haenyeo access to their own grounds — Guests must not win.
- Language of briefs — Korean first; visitors second.
- Disability — Udo sand is kinder than a Seogwipo jump.
Outlook
- Work coasts stay work — The useful future.
- Udo with a carrying number — Or a worse trampling.
- Honest seasons in the brochure — Winter is a drysuit, not a lie.
Jeju future is a cooperative that still has grounds and a harbour that can say no. The plaque is optional.