Jaeic Lee
English UX Writer Linguist at LINE Plus Corp
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJaeic Lee is a bilingual English–Korean UX writer and linguist based in Seoul with 11 years of experience shaping UI copy, localization, and terminology for consumer and developer-facing products. At LINE Plus he blends UX writing with basic localization engineering—automating workflows with CoffeeScript, JavaScript, and Python—to streamline translation projects and maintain consistent voice across services. His background spans games, media, and blockchain-adjacent content, with hands-on localization work for open-source projects like Cockatrice where he led Korean translations and terminology refinement. A former reporter and project manager, he brings editorial rigor, on-site interviewing experience, and freelance translation chops to cross-cultural product communication. Notably, he builds reference materials and termbases that reduce ambiguity for engineers and translators alike, turning linguistic nuance into measurable workflow improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, International/Global Studies, Bachelor's Degree, International/Global Studies at Korea University
Korean, English
Github Skills (8)
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translater10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Cockatrice/Cockatrice
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:18 commits, 11 PRs, 38 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jaeic primarily contributed to the localization efforts for the Cockatrice project. Their commits focused on adding and updating Korean translations for the application's user interface. They also made adjustments to existing translations based on third-party reviews and corrected some terminology.
gamesc-plus-plustransifextabletop-gamingcross-platform
ideocl4st/mtgcoverage
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:133 commits, 1 PR, 149 pushes in 6 months
reactnodejs
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