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Previous names
  
Farmland

Visitors per annum
  
7.38 million

Area
  
100 ha

Province
  
Gyeonggi Province

Operating season
  
year-round

Roller coasters
  
5

Opened
  
1976

Everland

Location
  
Everland Resort, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Owner
  
Samsung C&T Resort & Construction Group

Address
  
199 Everland-ro, Pogog-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Rides
  
T Express, Rolling-X Train, Herky & Timmy's Racing Coaster, Dragon Coaster, Hurricane

Similar
  
Caribbean Bay, Lotte World, Namiseom, Seoul Land, Korean Folk Village

Profiles

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Everland is South Korea's largest theme park. Located at the Everland Resort in Yongin, a city in Gyeonggi-do, it receives 7.3 million visitors annually and was ranked sixteenth in the world for amusement park attendance in 2014. Along with its main attractions, Everland includes a zoo and water park known as Caribbean Bay. Everland is operated by Samsung C&T Corporation (formerly known as Samsung Everland, Cheil Industries), which is a subsidiary of the Samsung Group.

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This park was formerly called "Jayeon Nongwon" which roughly translates to "Natural Farm." Its former English name was "Farmland."

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Themed areas

Everland is divided into five zones: Global Fair, Zoo-Topia, European Adventure, Magic Land and American Adventure.

Global Fair

Global Fair is primarily a place for food, souvenirs and pictures as visitors make their way into and out of the park. There are many shops, and restaurants as well as services such as stroller rental and lockers.

ZooTopia

ZooTopia is an animal-themed portion. There is a petting zoo, pony rides, and animal shows. There is a small zoo with polar bears, sea lions, penguins, bears, tigers and primates. A safari bus ride is available which shows animals such as ligers and bears roaming in a contained habitat. The visitors stay in the bus. Amazon Express is a raft ride, where most visitors get splashed. The petting zoo provides animals such as goats and sheep to pet. Kosik, one of Zoo-Topia's elephants, made headlines when he demonstrated an ability to imitate Korean words.

European Adventure

European Adventure has many restaurants in European styles. The architecture imitates European styles. There is a flower garden encircled by a train, games and arcades. A favorite attraction here is the Mystery Mansion where visitors can shoot at the ghosts. In March 2008, a ride named "T Express" was added. It is the first roller-coaster in Korea to be constructed out of wood.

Magic Land

Magic land is an elaborate array of buildings and rides. There is a portion called Aesop's Village where the characters and themes are primarily drawn from the fables of Aesop. The Ferris wheel provided a spectacular view of the whole park until it closed in 2011 to allow for more rides. There is a log flume, a futuristic flying ride, and a robot ride. With the rides, there are many restaurants and stands.

American Adventure

Themes from American history are presented in this portion of the park. There is one Wild West ride, the rodeo."Eagle fortress" was closed down.

In Rock Ville the theme is the 1950s and its music. The Double Rock Spin is a main attraction as live bands play near the Rolling X-Train, a roller coaster in the park.

T Express

The T Express, debuted in 2006, is the first wooden roller coaster and the largest of any kind in South Korea. The T Express is the 6th longest wooden coaster in the world at 5,838 feet (1,779 m) long. It is the steepest, with the first drop inclined at 77 degrees. Its name comes from the logo of conglomerate SK Corporation's SK Telecom service.

Characteristics and records of T Express (2009)
  • South Korea's first wooden roller coaster
  • World's steepest wooden roller coaster (77 degrees)
  • Drop: 57 metres (187 ft) (7th in the world)
  • Attraction time: 3 min (the longest in Asia, 7th in the world)
  • Air time: 12 times (the most air times in South Korea)
  • Altitude: 56 metres (184 ft) (the highest in Asia, 3rd in the world)
  • Maximum Speed: 104 kilometres per hour (65 mph) (the fastest in South Korea, 8th in the world)
  • [+] Gravity Force : 4.5g
  • [-] Gravity Force : -1.2g
  • Jigu Maul (Global Village)

    The Jigu Maul (literally means "Global village") was established in August 1985 as the first dark boat ride in South Korea. It shows worldwide traditions, cultural customs, scenery with dolls and iconic miniatures from more than 18 countries such as it's a Small World at Disneyland Park in California. However, Due to safety reasons, it had been pulled down at 2016.

    Characteristics of Jigu Maul

  • Europe has dolls representing Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, England, Spain and Sweden.
  • The Arctic and North Pole features dolls representing Scandinavia.
  • America has dolls representing Brazil, Mexico and United States with a miniaturized Golden Gate in San Francisco, Times Square and Statue of Liberty in New York City.
  • Africa has wild animals with natural forest and dolls representing Egypt, South Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya's ethic group of Maasai people.
  • Asia has dolls representing India, China with a miniaturized Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) in Beijing, Japan with Matsuri folkdancing, Korea with traditional percussion performance named Samulnori and fan dancing named Buchaechum at a miniaturized Namdaemun in Seoul.
  • References

    Everland Wikipedia