Korea Places 25 Out of 30 in a Global Happiness Index

From a kids newspaper my school subscribes to:

Switzerland Is the World’s Happiest Country (30-10-2009)

According to this year’s OECD’s NIW (National Index of Well-being)국가행복지수, Switzerland is the happiest country. The data was released on October 22, after studying 30 OECD경제협력개발기구 member countries in many different areas such as economy, social networking, and general well-being. According to the results, Switzerland ranked top.

Other European countries including Norway, Sweden, and Austria followed next. In North America, Canada was named the happiest country. The U.S. ranked 20th on the list. In Asia, Japan appeared to be the happiest country - it ranked 18th place in the list.

Sadly, however, Korea ranked 25th among the 30 member countries. The other 5 unhappy countries after Korea were Poland, Slovakia, Mexico, Hungary and Turkey.