A new survey has shown that South Koreans are under extreme amounts of stress and are generally less optimistic about their senior years compared to their counterparts in China and the U.S.

Global shoemaker Crocs said Tuesday that the findings were made in an online survey of 13-thousand-173 people in its six major markets of South Korea, China, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and Germany.
 
In the survey, 92 percent of South Korean respondents answered that they have too much stress. The proportion was much higher than Japan's 81 percent, China's 80 percent and the U.S.'s 78 percent.
 
On a question about whether they were living a very happy life, 48 percent of respondents in the U.S. gave the affirmative response, while the related figures for Germany and China both marked 41 percent. South Korea came in last among the six countries with only nine percent saying they are happy.
 
Only 46 percent of the South Koreans answered that they found pleasure and joy, however small they may be, in their everyday lives, far lower than the 62 percent average tallied among the five other countries.
 
The survey was conducted between March 24th and April sixth by research firm ORC International at the request of Crocs. Two-thousand-171 South Korean people aged between 20 and 64 were surveyed.