page_title: Bombardier Transportation
section_title: Everline
hierarchical_section_title: Bombardier Transportation / Legal issues / Everline
caption_attribution_description: English: Two Toronto Flexity streetcars, nos. 4515 (foreground) and 4514 (background) pass through Bolton, Ontario, near the end of their journey from Thunder Bay to Toronto. The date was 2018-12-07, and the train was part of a two-train meet, with this train using the passing siding (the mainline is in the foreground). Because the streetcars overhang at each end of the flatcars on which they are loaded, they are separated from neighbouring cars by empty flatcars. Photographer's coördinates: 43.869348,&#160;-79.740073
context_page_description: Bombardier Transportation is the German Subsidiary and rail equipment division of Bombardier Inc. It is one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Bombardier Transportation has many regional offices, production and development facilities worldwide.
  Bombardier Transportation produces a wide range of products including passenger rail vehicles, locomotives, bogies, propulsion and controls.
  In February 2020, the company had 36,000 employees, and 63 manufacturing and engineering locations around the world.
context_section_description: In January 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that South Korea's Special Investigation Unit for anti-corruption produced a report accusing Bombardier Transportation of corruption in the pursuit of the 2004 contract to build an 18 km elevated Light Rapid Transit (LRT) rail system called the Everline connecting the Giheung Station on the Bundang (Yellow Line) of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system to a large amusement park named Everland, via Yongin, the 12th largest city in South Korea,  about 30 km from central Seoul.
  The investigation report alleges that Bombardier provided gifts and trips to Canada for civil servants and politicians involved in the contract decision, which was based on revenue expected from an inflated estimate of 180,000 passengers per day using the service.  It also alleges that Bombardier created a $2-million slush fund for the Canadian citizen Kim Hak-Pil, a high-ranking Bombardier executive in South Korea.  Bombardier has consistently denied the corruption allegations, stating that "They were not pleasure trips. There is a need to convince the people that our technology works well.... If it had been corruption, they would have charged us."  The statute of limitations has now expired, due to lack of evidence according to Bombardier.
  Everline operation has been financially troubled since construction was completed in 2010. The system remained dormant until service began in 2013 while the line owner successfully negotiated with the city of Yongin a minimum revenue guarantee of 29.5 billion KRW per year regardless of passenger load.  This is said to be a serious burden for the city because ridership is reported to have risen to only about 20,000 passengers per day on the 30 carriages, or about a quarter of the maximum possible capacity of the fleet in a 12-hour day.  A reason suggested for this is the fare of 1100 KRW (about US$1 in 2015); it is impossible to pay for Everline trips via a transfer surcharge on a connecting subway ticket. A 2014 web page of a Seoul tour service retailer makes no mention of the Everline among the suggested modes of bus transport between Seoul and Everland.  A lawyer who filed legal action on behalf of the citizens of Yongin is reported to have provided details about Bombardier's pursuit of the contract.  He said that "between 2003 and 2005, Bombardier funded three luxurious trips to Canada to each of 37 people" including 18 Yongin city councillors on so-called "LRT field trips".
   streetcars in December 2018]]
caption: Toronto Flexity
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