# Korean Linguist - English to Korean

**Company**: Welocalize
**Location**: Japan
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Language Services
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Korean Linguist to join our Production team on a full-time remote basis.

As a Korean Linguist, you will manage translation and copy-editing tasks, ensuring high-quality linguistic deliverables for assigned projects or accounts. You will coordinate with freelancers and agencies, maintain language resources, resolve terminology queries, and collaborate with clients and internal teams to enhance workflow efficiency.

Responsibilities:

- Perform copy-edit tasks on assigned projects or accounts

- Perform on-demand translation tasks

- Provide lead support on assigned projects or accounts

- Manage and maintain language materials, including glossaries, style guides, and work instructions

- Manage project-related queries

- Ensure good interaction among team members and resolve questions on terminology and language matters

- Test and qualify new freelancers and vendors as required

- Develop and train internal linguists and external partners according to account and company needs

- Interact with clients on linguistic matters as required

- Participate in the development of new and improved working processes

- Meet or exceed KPIs in terms of productivity, on-time delivery, and quality

- Achieve goals set by the team manager

Requirements:

- University degree in Translation, Applied Languages, Linguistic Studies, or equivalent combination of education and experience

- Native fluency in Korean

- Fluency in English, both written and spoken

- 4+ years of experience in translation, localization, editing, or content writing

- 2+ years of review experience

- Thorough understanding of the localization process

- Good user experience with standard software, such as Windows and Office applications

- Good user experience with standard CAT tools, e.g., XTM, SDL Studio, and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g., JIRA

- Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly

- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

- Excellent knowledge of terminology used in two or more subject matters

- Ability to work with tight deadlines

- Ability to give clear, concise, and constructive feedback

- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, linguists

- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

## Skills

### Required
- Korean
- English
- translation
- localization
- editing
- content writing
- XTM
- SDL Studio
- JIRA

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