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[Tieno]

China is the happiest place on earth(!!) according to a new global happiness index released by North Korea's Chosun Central Television. China earned 100 out of 100 points, followed closely by North Korea (98 points), then Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. Coming in at 203rd place is America (or rather "the American Empire", 美帝&#22269, with only 3 happiness points. South Korea got a measly 18 points for 152nd place.

While their representative representatives might not show the vivacity on their faces (and a few slip ups might have been caught on video) I guess China's been right to gush about Pyongyang's future. Nothing says happy like government-issued proclamations of happiness.
http://shanghaiist.com/2011/05/31/north_korea_releases_global_happine.php

Surprised North-Korea isn't first.

 

[Cosmic Dreams]

Well... um, GAF, what do you all say?


I got nothing.

 

[Drkirby]

Old, report done by North Korea's Chosun Central Television.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432129

 

[TacticalFox88]

....This is why we need the old search engine back.

 

[pj]

might be somewhat biased

 

[mavs]

Surprised North-Korea isn't first.

They can actually go to China, the ranking has to be reconcilable with the observable universe.

 

[Tieno]

Old, report done by North Korea's Chosun Central Television.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432129

damn, i searched .

 

[Threi]

I don't doubt best Korea.

 

[fudgey_lumpkins]

Slightly off topic, but I've always wondered why China calls America "Beautiful Country" (美&#22269

美 = Beauty
国 = Country

 

[Deleted member 81567]

This thread made me unhappier.

 

[Utako]

Slightly off topic, but I've always wondered why China calls America "Beautiful Country" (美&#22269

美 = Beauty
国 = Country

Because they like to be right?

 

[computers putin']

lol, I like how they put China first just to seem a lil less biased.

 

[midonnay]

Slightly off topic, but I've always wondered why China calls America "Beautiful Country" (美&#22269

美 = Beauty
国 = Country

something to do with matching the correct pronunciation (rather than meaning anything) maybe.... (according to someone I asked years ago)

 

[Utako]

something to do with matching the correct pronunciation (rather than meaning anything) maybe.... (according to someone I asked years ago)

There are other characters that make the "mei" sound.

I guess that one was fitting.

 

[Monocle]

Best Korea is Best Korea.

 

[Jangocube]

Best Korea is Best Korea.

Clearly

We just can't compete with that.

 

[SolarPowered]

Best Korea is happiest Korea.

 

[Dice]

North Korea is missing those two points until they finally crush the evil rebel nemesis USA and save the rest of the Korean people from the USA's puppet state running South Korea.

 

[Synth_floyd]

Slightly off topic, but I've always wondered why China calls America "Beautiful Country" (美&#22269

美 = Beauty
国 = Country

It's just based on pronunciation. In Japan, America is called 米国 which literally means "rice country," which was also chosen for its pronunciation and not meaning.

 

[RustyNails]

I'm starting to wonder if the jokers running N Korea are beginning to believe their own crap.

 

[SolKane]

"美" is pronounced similarly to the "me" sound in America, so it's an approximate phonetic rendering of what "America" sounds like in Chinese, and adapted to the Chinese lexicon. So they essentially took a word which sounds about equal and applied it to their grammatical conventions. The same happens when rendering France, which is 法国, or fa guo; the 法 character has connotations of law.