Career

     RESEARCHER, PROJECT MANAGER, MANAGER, DEPUTY DIRECTOR  (1996 ~ 2010)
     KOTRA (www.kotra.or.kr)

     Research overseas markets. Manage foreign investment projects. Assist Korean exporters.

     • Researcher of North African & Southwest Asian region
     • Project manager of European investment promotion team
     • Manager of Korea Trade Center in Brussels, Belgium (2000 ~ 2003)
     • Manager of Korea Trade Center in Cheongju, Chungbuk, Korea
     • Deputy director of Korea Trade Center in Alger, Algeria (2006 ~ 2009)
     • Deputy director of Investment Partnership Support Team

     • Co-author, with Dr. YH Park of KIEP, of 'Main Industries in Algeria' (2007)


     FREELANCER                                                        (2011 ~     )
     English to Korean / Korean to English translator



Completed translation projects (English into Korean)

      • Finance: Website materials for JP Morgan, etc.
      • Petrochemical: Product brochures for BP Castrol, etc.
      • Health care or medicine: Reports and brochures for Merck & Co, etc.
      • Legal: Insider Trading Policy of Walmart, etc.
      • SAP: SAP system presentation materials for Newell Rubbermaid
      • Auto parts: Company presentation of KSPG, etc.
      • Valve, pump, filtration and cooling system: Website materials for Alfa Laval
      • Military: Proposals and contracts
      • Subtitling: Dramas and movies (Modern Family, How I met your mother, etc.)
      • Academic materials: ‘The Effects of Ideological Partisanship on Interest Rates and Business Taxation in the US’, etc.


Completed translation projects (Korean into English)

     • Legal documents
        - Enforcement decree of the Act on the Allocation and Trading of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Permits
        - Operating Regulations on the Market for Trading Emission Permits
     • Website materials for a company of health care (BRT World), etc.
     • Webtoons, company profiles, subtitles, brochures and contracts of various fields


Completed translation projects (French into English)

     • Korean phrase book (ASSiMiL/ about 150 pages / published in 2017)


Education

     B. A. in French language and literature     (1989 ~ 1995)
     Korea University (www.korea.ac.kr)

     Biblical Hebrew                                        (2011 ~ 2012)
     Korea Hebrew Theology



Software

     CAT Tool (Fluency, Wordfast Pro, Memsource), Aegisub, KeySubSync, Adobe Acrobat Pro, etc.


Expertise

     Legal, Industries (oil & gas, chemicals, electricity, etc.), Subtitling, Economy, SAP, Medicine, etc.