He and his brother Dong-Hyek Lim won third prize at the XV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

Dong Min Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College The New School for Music.

At that time, Lim got a message of congratulations by Kim Young-sam, the president of Korea at that moment.

In 1996, at age 16, he was the winner of the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Moscow (his brother Dong-Hyek Lim was in second place).

Here, he was the third person in Korean history after Myung-whun Chung (정명훈) and Hae-Sun Beak (백혜선) to be on the top list.