[Blog assignment 1] : WVS analysis : Problem if women have more income than husband, Feeling of happiness

 I brought the first question to ask if there was a problem with women earning more than their husbands. I thought it was useful when making statistics or judgments about male chauvinism and gender equality.

Korea, China, Japan, and the United States are the target countries for this question. I think it would be better to compare it with neighboring countries and the biggest one with Western countries.

Consent to these questions was the highest in Korea. Judging from this, it can be inferred that Korea still has a patriarchal culture. On the other hand, the figures were relatively low in the United States and Japan. Especially in the United States, it was the highest figure for those who disagreed. Therefore, it can be inferred that the United States has the most progressive tendency in gender equality. Also, Japan had the highest number of neither agree nor disagree and China had the second highest number of non-agreements. It can be inferred that these two countries are relatively more progressive than Korea.

The second question is happiness. I chose this question on the premise that many people do not feel happy because Korea is known to have the highest suicide rate in the OECD. I also chose one country by continent to see how this happiness is affected by cultural diversity. So the countries I chose are Korea in Asia, Guatemala in the Americas, Britain in Europe, and Zimbabwe in Africa.

My prediction was that people's happiness would be low even though Korea was a relative developed country. It is because I thought that the statistics of the highest suicide rate in OECD were derived due to the relative inferiority complex and depression of Korean people.
Overall, my expectations were generally correct. But there were some surprises. Guatemala and England were extremely happy. More than 90 percent of the people in both countries answered "very happy" and "quite happy," with people in both countries showing much higher levels of happiness than those in the other two countries. So far, it generally fits my expectations and the surprise is as follows. The happiness of Koreans was higher than I thought. Only about 4% of Koreans said they were very happy, but 85% said they were quite happy.  I didn't know that the happiness of Korean people was this high. Of course, the figure is relatively low compared to other developed countries (of course Guatemala is not an advanced country), but I felt that happiness was still quite high. I didn't know that the happiness of Korean people was this high. Guatemala's high level of happiness was surprising, though I expected it. The fact that Guatemala, a relatively poor country, has such a high level of happiness can be inferred that it has some social, cultural and ideological differences with the people of the Republic of Korea.

The last thing that surprised me was that the happiness in Zimbabwe was very low. I had expected that the happiness of Zimbabwe and Guatemala would be similar. In other words, only the Republic of Korea was expected to show a very low level of happiness, but the prediction was wrong. Zimbabwe's euphoria was noticeably lower than in the other three countries, and these differences left quite a startling impression. Zimbabwe is not currently in a civil war like some countries in the Middle East, but it was a bit of a surprise to see such a low level of happiness. Rather, I thought this was a prejudice of Koreans : To expect Korea to have the least happiness.