Kyung Hee University is a private university located in Seoul and Yongin, South Korea. Since its foundation in 1949, it has grown to become the university with the largest number of students and departments in Korea. Kyung Hee ranks among the top 5 private universities in the nation and upholds the motto “Creating a Civilized World”. Kyung Hee recently identified Space Science, Bio-Health, Quantum Technology, , Material Science, AI and transformative civilization as its “6 strategic fields”, and has started actively recruiting top-tier scholars in these fields around the world. In this forum, we introduce Kyung Hee University and its recruiting plans for full-time and adjunct professor positions, and present Kyung Hee’s efforts to expand US-Korea collaboration in space exploration, one of Kyung Hee’s strategic fields.