Daegu International Musical Festival

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Daegu International Musical Festival

The Mecca of Asian Musical Daegu International Musical Festival!

DIMF is an international event, held from June to July every year in Daegu since the 'Pre. DIMF' in 2006, to popularize and vitalize musical theater as the world's first international musical theatre festival.

Various programs for citizens of all ages take place during the Festival such as Official Invitation through continued international partnership, New Musical sponsored by the Festival, College Musical Festival, the dream stage of musical theater students, and Official Events; Opening Concert and DIMF Awards.

The 17th DIMF Opening Ceremony
The 17th DIMF Awards
The 17th DIMF Opening performance "9 to 5"

Linked Business such as DIMF Musical Academy and DIMF Musicalstar has broadened the field of business. With the title of the very first international musical festival in Asia bringing productions, performance industry communities and musicallovers from all over the world, DIMF has grown in stature as a representative brand of Korean cultural industry and a mecca of Asian musical industry.

Results of the Daegu International Musical Festival in the Last Five Years (2018-2023)

Results of the Daegu International Musical Festival in the Last Five Years (2018-2023)
Year	No. of Works	Participant Countries	No. of Festival Participants	No. of Audiences	No. of Online Audiences
2018 the 12th	24	UK, Czech Republic, Russia, Kazakhstan, France, China, etc.	258,928	43,422	-
2019 the 13th	23	UK, Spain, Russia, France, China, Thailand, etc.	261,906	44,023	-
2020 the 14th	9	Korea (※ 9 overseas shows restreamed online)	12,325	5,182	324,381
2021 1the 5th	21	Korea-Sweden co-production, Korea-China co-production, Russia, France, etc.	18,003	12,464	184,813
2022 the 16th	22	Slovakia, UK, etc.	152,289	32,617	133,274
2023 the 17th	19	UK, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, etc.	385,000	235,000	150,000

Posters of the Daegu International Musical Festival 2007-2023

International Exchanges of the Daegu International Musical Festival

International Exchanges of the Daegu International Musical Festival
City / Organization of Agreement	Content of Agreement	Date of Agreement
New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF)	Invite the DIMF’s original musical to the NYMF Invite the NYMF’s original musical to the DIMF	Feb. 2, 2009
Dongguan City, China	Co-hosting of the Musical Forum by the DIMF, Dongguan City, and New York City Songlei Award Exchange performance of the DIMF’s original musical Cooperative production of the musical Turandot	Aug. 6, 2010
Beijing Oriental Songlei Musical Development Company		Aug. 6, 2010
Beijing Oriental Songlei Musical Development Company	Grant license to the DIMF’s musical Turandot in China	June 18, 2011
New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF)	Linking opening and closing performances between the DIMF and the NYMF	July 6, 2011
Jinan City, China	Cultural exchanges including the performance of the DIMF’s Turandot	Feb. 27, 2012
China Shanghai International Arts Festival	Cultural Exchanges including the performance of the DIMF’s Turandot	March 12, 2014
Harbin Entertainment Group Limited Liability Company	Cultural Exchanges including the performance of the DIMF’s Turandot	April 13, 2016
Harmonia Holdings, Ltd, U.S.	Exchange performance of the DIMF and Korean musical Establishment of ‘DIMF Awards’ <Harmonia Holdings Prize> and support for training in New York : A winner of <Harmonia Holdings Prize> will get a training opportunity at Broadway, New York	July 7, 2018
Divadlo Nová scéna, Slovakia	DIMF-made Musical Turandot sign a MoU for the first time in the history of Korean creative musical with the 6 Eastern European Countries (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany)	Sep. 13, 2018
China Naoyin(Shanghai) Culture Communication Co. Ltd	5th DIMF Musicalstar' local audition in China -Cooperating on discovering and nurturing musical talents and cultural exchange upon signing MOU.	April. 2019
Chinese Taipei	'The 1st QAF DIMF Global Musical Seminar'	July. 2019
Nová Scéna National Theatre in Slovakia	Musical Turandot as a licensed production in Eastern Europe Premiered in March and restaged in	March. 2020
Korea- Chinese Taipei DIMF, Theater juk-dal, Quanta Arts Foundation and C MUSICAL Production	Co-production between Korea and Chinese Taipei 'Toward' premiered in the 15th DIMF On tour in Chinese Taipei_National Taichung Theater (November)	June. 2021
USA New York	DIMF WEEK on USA Live Streaming Platform(Broadway On Demand)	Oct. 2021