Identifying dark matter takes a very high priority in the to-do list of modern physics
due to its high occupancy in the universe: about 85% of total matter.
DM-Ice is a new international collaboration to perform a direct dark matter search using NaI(Tl) crystals.
The location of DM-Ice in the deep (-2.5 km) icecap at the South Pole
provides with an excellent environment to check DAMA's claim of dark matter discovery (8.9 sigma)
which is yet controversial to other dark matter experiments.
DM-Ice successfully deployed 2 prototype NaI(Tl) crystal (8.5 kg each) detectors in December 2010
and has been taking data continuously since then.
We aim for deploying a full detector (>= 250 kg) in the near future.
In this talk I will present the status of DM-Ice and its plan.
