World Carnival

World Carnival is a global travelling amusement park operator based in Hong Kong. Between 1995 and 2007 World Carnival visited China (four times), Dubai (three times), Hong Kong (five times), Malaysia, Oman, Singapore (twice), South Korea, and Thailand.
Ferris wheel
World Carnival operated a Ronald Bussink Professional Rides Giant Wheel, which it claimed was the world's tallest transportable Ferris wheel. Its height was been reported as both and .
At approximately 17:30 on 13 August 2007, five people, all from the same family, were killed when one of its 42 passenger cars overturned in Busan, South Korea. Four people, including a boy aged 7 and a woman aged 68, died at the scene after falling . A woman aged 28 was taken to the nearby Busan University Hospital but died later. Two other people from the same family, riding in the same gondola, clung to handholds and avoided injury. It took emergency responders over two and a half hours to rescue the remaining 22 passengers from four other gondolas. The Giant Wheel was one of 30 World Carnival rides that had opened in Busan for a 40-day run in July, having previously operated for four months in Hong Kong.<ref name="goldcoast1593"/><ref name="msnbc20248185"/><ref name="chosun"/>
The Giant Wheel was subsequently put up for auction in Hong Kong and bought by Freij Entertainment, who shipped it to Global Village, Dubai, and renamed it the Freij World Wheel. While operating there, a bystander was killed by a metal bar which fell from the wheel.<ref name=gulfnews1137668/>

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