Astrophysical observations give overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter. For over 15 years, the DAMA collaboration has asserted that they observe a dark matter-induced annual modulation signal but their observation has yet to be confirmed. I will describe DM-Ice a low-background NaI(Tl)-based dark matter experiment aimed at understanding the DAMA signal and unambiguously testing the hypothesis of a dark-matter induced annual modulation signal. DM-Ice17, a prototype experiment consisting of 17kg of NaI(Tl) detectors, has been continuously operating at the South Pole for over 4 years demonstrating the feasibility of a low-background experiment in the Antarctic ice. Recently, DM-Ice collaboration has joined forces with the KIMS experiment to form COSINE-100, a larger-scale NaI(Tl)-based experiment, to start in June 2016 at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory in South Korea. The results from DM-Ice17 and prospects for DM-Ice as well as COSINE-100 will be presented.