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

mercor; Netherlands; À distance; EUR 36 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Korean for a remote contract role. You will source Korean PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate page structures, assign types and reading-order indices, and transcribe Hangul faithfully.

You will record metadata, capture relationships between regions and parents, and ensure exact character-level accuracy. All work undergoes peer review by a second Korean expert, with emphasis on precise taxonomy and handling hanja.

Qualifications

• Native Korean speaker with Hangul and hanja fluency.
• Experience in bilingual transcription or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy in transcription.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.

Responsabilités

• Source documents by locating Korean PDFs with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure by bounding regions and assigning types.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parents.
• Transcribe faithfully in Hangul including hanja and handwriting.
• Capture document metadata and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review work end-to-end with a second Korean expert.

Connaissances

Korean transcription

Editorial work

AI training data

Bilingual transcription

Description du poste

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)