At 20, Daegu Int'l Musical Festival presses case for national theater complex

When the Daegu International Musical Festival opens its 20th edition this June, organizers will be celebrating more than a milestone. They are using the occasion to press the longer-running case: Korea's musical theater industry, now riding the high of the six Tony Awards pulled by "Maybe Happy Ending" last year, needs national infrastructure to match — and that infrastructure should be built in Daegu, not Seoul. At a Seoul press conference on Tuesday, the festival's leadership laid out the line

By The Korea Herald