Asia's First Globally Influential Musical Festival Brand

DIMF was Founded in 2006, it has successfully held 19 editions by 2025. The world's largest-scale international musical theatre festival. It has broken the dominance of Anglo-American musicals, and enabled collisions of musical styles rooted in diverse cultural backgrounds.

  • As the world’s largest and most influential musical theatre festival to date, DIMF has emerged as an emblem of the integrated development of international pop culture.

  • DIMF has attracted over 6,700 participating teams in total, nurtured more than 1,100 talents hailing from 10 countries worldwide.

  • By establishing professional competitions and incubation systems such as DIMF MusicalStar, building a global platform for industry resource connectivity, and facilitating the integration of production and operation resources, DIMF has fostered a vibrant musical theatre industry ecosystem.

19TH(2025) DIMF RECORD

City of Musical Creativity

DIMF’s success has helped transform Daegu into a "City of Musical Creativity"—a world-renowned musical hub that has formed a cultural industry cluster with musicals at its core.

In doing so, DIMF has set a replicable model for the integration of the global musical industry and urban culture.

DIMF PROJECTS

Musical Star

It is a youth musical competition that started from 2015 to discover and nurture talented musical talents who will lead the future Korean and global musical performance markets.

Musical Academy

the goal is to strengthen musical talent.

Since 2015, It provides field-specific lectures and stage practice opportunities with the country's top musical experts for writers, composers, actors, and aspiring musical artists.

Musical Incubating

DIMF's new creative musical support program supports creative and promising works in the development stage to revitalize the continuously growing local creative musical scene.

Main Sponsors

DIMF MusicalStar

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Official youth talent competition organized by DIMF, Korea's first and largest youth musical competition!