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

mercor; India; Remote; INR 4,272,000 - 5,340,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert specializing in Korean for a remote contract role. You will locate Korean PDFs with multimodal elements and carefully annotate structures and reading order.

You will transcribe Hangul content verbatim, capture page metadata, and ensure strict taxonomy consistency. The work is reviewed by a second Korean expert to guarantee accuracy and reliability.

Qualifications

• Native Korean with full Hangul mastery including hanja.
• Experience in bilingual transcription, translation, editorial work, or AI training data.
• Achieve exact character-level accuracy in annotations.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with multi-column layouts and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Korean PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources.
• Annotate and bound page regions with component types and read order.
• Link regions to parent components and relationships.
• Transcribe Hangul faithfully, flag illegible regions.
• Record metadata including language, document type, and page dimensions.
• Review colleagues' work end-to-end.

Skills

Korean language mastery

Bilingual transcription

Character-level accuracy

Taxonomy application

Handwritten forms handling

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)