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

mercor; Finland; Remote; EUR 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Korean for contract work. You will locate Korean PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate page regions, assign types and reading orders, and transcribe Hangul text exactly. You will also record metadata and relationships while ensuring high accuracy.

Work is remote, with end-to-end review by a second Korean expert. This role requires native Korean proficiency, experience in bilingual transcription, and meticulous taxonomy

Qualifications

• 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 in transcription tasks.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Korean PDFs with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region and assigning component types and indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully by reproducing Hangul text exactly, flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.

Skills

Korean language

Transcription experience

Attention to detail

Taxonomy discipline

Handwritten forms

Job description

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)