This is peak JohnVoightCar bait
My honest opinion from observations is that many Korean people revel in being down in the dumps. Sadness just seems to permeate through Korean society, almost like a deep-seated part of their culture. Look at all the tears that are constantly being shed, and how TV dramas are often depressing affairs. Glass half empty seems to be constant.
Yeah man. Korea's a dump. I visited Seoul for two days in December in 2018. It's the worst example of a concrete jungle I've ever seen. I'd be depressed if I lived there too. Even the train museum sucked a**. Any of the really cool stuff was just a mock up. I would have liked to see a real KTX train. Nope. It's a fake. But the real thing is just a TGV knockoff amirite
My honest opinion from observations is that many Korean people revel in being down in the dumps. Sadness just seems to permeate through Korean society, almost like a deep-seated part of their culture. Look at all the tears that are constantly being shed, and how TV dramas (mostly days gone by) are often depressing affairs. Kind of reflects the older crowd's mind-set. Glass half empty seems to be constant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(cultural)I don't wanna badmouth my gf here too much, but man. The things she complains about sometimes. It's so specific and so dumb and it hasn't even happened yet. And it'll ruind her entire day....
I don't care; 10 minutes is nothing. It's not like you're meeting the Queen or something.
I think the queen is pretty chill these days.
. In short, (1) happiness is too vague and multifaceted a concept to define clearly and precisely; (2) even if it could be defined, it is an essentially qualitative concept that is difficult to quantify and measure with any confidence; and (3) even if it could be measured, designing and implementing policy based on happiness raises a number of ethical and political issues that cannot be solved by improving the science of measurement.
Some of the happiest nations, such as Finland and Denmark, also have high suicide rates, as reported in a new study, which set out to expose some of the contradictions in the Nordic dominance of global happiness league tables.
These surveys depend on subjective self-reporting, not to mention eliding cultural differences. In Japan there is a cultural bias against boasting of one’s good fortune, and in East Asia the most common response, by far, is to report one’s happiness as average. In Scandinavia, meanwhile, there is immense societal pressure to tell everyone how happy you are, right up to the moment when you’re sticking your head in the oven. Longtime Scandinavian resident Michael Booth observes as much in his book on the subject, in which he points out that Danes and Icelanders ranked fourth and first in the world in use of antidepressants in an OECD survey. Booth, after living in Scandinavia for more than a decade, says that he’s never met a Dane who really believes Danes are among the happiest people.
And the cleanliness of the house thing. Let me be clear that I don't want to have a dirty house. But unless it attracts mice/ants/roaches, then there's no need to have the BATTLE STATION ALARMS going. A lot of people here act like the mayor is coming over for high tea in 20 minutes but they NEVER invite anyone over to their house. It's so bizarre.
Aside from the obvious baiting and if people want a serious answer.
