Connor Lim, sixth from left, co-founder and CEO of the International Dance League, poses for a photo with participating teams during a press conference marking the league's Seoul event at Novotel Ambassador Seoul Dongdaemun, Friday. Yonhap
Elite dance crews from around the world will battle it out in Seoul through the International Dance League (IDL), as the Seoul Series, the fourth stop of the league's 2026 season, takes place Saturday at Kyung Hee University.
Launched in 2025, IDL is the world's first global professional dance league, with six franchise teams competing across a regular season for the IDL 2026 Championship title. The league has sold out all three of its previous series in New York, Vancouver and Sydney, surpassing 600 million cumulative views and impressions worldwide.
Ahead of the Seoul opener, the league gathered IDL co-founder and CEO Connor Lim and the competing teams at a hotel conference room in central Seoul on Friday to share what audiences can expect.
For Lim, a dancer since the age of 13, the league is about reframing how dance is seen.
