NASA has contributed to resolve global water issues by utilizing their long-term legacy of remote sensing technologies
supported by a state of art software engineering. In this context, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has developed a
land surface model framework to monitor and predict water hazards such as flood and drought with the Land
Information System (hereafter LIS) applied to North America and beyond it to include a global coverage. However, it is
still challenging to apply the LIS to East-Asia where a rice-paddy agriculture is prevalent compared to other parts of the
world, but retains a high population density in this region. Thus, this paper introduces recent efforts from the Korea
Water Resources Corporation (K-water) in S. Korea to establish the LIS in East-Asia including Korea, aiming at
producing surface hydrology datasets in Asia. One of the ultimate goals of this project is to manage the water hazards
in Korea and to provide the water resources dataset in East-Asia by adapting the LIS with their abundantly available
hydrometeorological observations to support the LIS applications. Preliminary results from initiating efforts since the
beginning of 2017 between NASA and K-water are addressed in the paper to review the possible outcomes after this
ongoing project to benefit both entities.