Description review

Korean Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $33/hr

mercor · Spain · back to the listing

HR standards

78/100

solid

Title ↔ description

54/100

needs work

Reads as

Unclear

no confident match

What this role officially is

translator — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Translators transcribe written documents from one or more languages to another ensuring that the message and nuances therein remain in the translated material. They translate material backed up by an understanding of it, which can include commercial and industrial documentation, personal documents, journalism, novels, creative writing, and scientific texts delivering the translations in any format.

Also known as: linguistic coordinator, sworn translator, scientific translator, financial translator, medical translator, video game translator

What the listing never says

  • 20 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Korean
Type:Contract
Compensation:$34/hour
Location:Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Korean PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or diagrams. Record the source of each document.

• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.

• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.

• Transcribe faithfully by reproducing all text exactly as it appears in Hangul, including any hanja and handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.

• Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.

• Review a colleague's work. Every task is reviewed end-to-end by a second Korean expert.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Korean speaker with full command of Hangul, including hanja.

• Experience in bilingual transcription, translation, editorial work, or AI training data.

• Exact character-level accuracy.

• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.

• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with AI training data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.

• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction.

• Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Korean-language material.

• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Korean input methods, Hangul jamo composition, and hanja handling.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume

• AI interview based on your resume

• Submit form

Resources & Support

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

Originally posted on Himalayas

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 4 points (from 82 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.