Member since Dec '25

Working languages:
Korean to English
English to Korean
Korean (monolingual)

Woo Hwang
No accent in both languages (Native En/Kor, top 0.1%)

Seoul, Soul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
Local time: 08:51 EDT (GMT-4)

Native in: English Native in English, Korean Native in Korean
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Account type Freelance translator and/or interpreter
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Services Translation, Transcreation, Website localization, Copywriting, Language instruction, Interpreting, Software localization, Subtitling, Transcription
Expertise
Specializes in:
IT (Information Technology)
Volunteer / Pro-bono work Open to considering volunteer work for registered non-profit organizations
Rates
General rate: 0.07 USD per word / 35 USD per hour

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Portfolio Sample translations submitted: 1
Experience Years of experience: 6. Registered at ProZ.com: Nov 2025. Became a member: Dec 2025.
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Credentials N/A
Memberships N/A
Software Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Crowdin, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Subtitle Editor, Trados Studio

Website Website
Professional objectives
  • Meet new translation company clients
  • Meet new end/direct clients
Bio

My name is Woo J. Hwang. I am native fluent in both English and Korean with no accent in both languages. This fact can easily be verified via an audio or video call with a native speaker of your choice.

Being Bi-Native in both langauges, I am currently a freelance gaming translator for Tencent, coordinate with about a dozen translation agencies, and am the sole translator of the programming book "Dive into Design Patterns" by Alexander Shvets. I've been a legal, medical, patent, publishing, software, gaming and e-course translator since 2020 (although I've translated material from many other disciplines).

How did I acquire such linguistic abilities?

Born to Korean parents, I spent my early childhood (ages 5 to 9) fully immersed in English at the American School of Warsaw, followed by rigorous Korean academic training (ages 9 to 13) in South Korea. From age 13 to 28, I lived in the United States, where I worked for many years as a certified paralegal drafting hundreds of high-stakes legal briefs requiring absolute clarity and precision, submitted under attorneys' names in court cases. (Writing Samples available upon request).

Since I turned 28, I moved to the carribeans and started exploring remote work options. After working as a web developer, programming, for example, shadowslove.com, the website for one of the largest lifestyle clubs in Maryland, I realized that I was born to be a technical and legal translator!

My unique background and extensive training in legal brief-writing and programming has equipped me with rare fluency, cultural nuance, and proven ability to produce clear, accurate, publication-ready text in both languages: qualities that have enabled me to excel as a top-tier academic and technical translator from the start of my translation career in 2019.

I then was selected as the sole and official translator for the book "Dive Into Design Patterns" by Alexander Shvets. Over 50+ highly qualified applicants competed for the position, and I was selected due to my understanding of programming and my linguistic abilities. Thereafter, I cooperated with Alconost since 2021 to present time and a few other select clients.

I also freelanced on UpWork where I became Top Rated Plus with nothing but 5 star reviews. Recently, in 2025, I scored a 100 TQI (Translation Quality Index) score when tested by Alconost. I am currently cooperating with various translation agencies and individual clients and decided to join ProZ to connect with potential clients and to showcase some of my skills. I thereafter started cooperating with Tencent as a freelance gaming translator and decided to open a ProZ profile to get reviews.

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If you have any questions, or just want to meet and greet, don't hesitate to contact me. 

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Jul 26



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