Summary
Soyoung Kim is a seasoned translator and localization specialist with eight years’ experience bridging Spanish, Korean and English across videogames, blockchain, social media and marketing. She currently works as a Spanish-to-Korean translator at TransPerfect while leading Korean language efforts and managing translations at Lilt, and maintains active freelance and QA testing roles for game studios and localization teams. Her background includes hands-on localization testing at Rockstar Games and community management for EOS projects, giving her a rare mix of linguistic precision and product-facing QA sensibilities. Comfortable with in-game string handling, HTML assets and legal/standards checks, she excels at catching both linguistic nuance and functional bugs. Based in Spain, she combines formal business and language training with practical industry experience to ship culturally accurate content for global audiences. An unexpected strength is her track record in community and launch roles, which informs translations that align with both player voice and marketing goals.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Greystone College
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration, Marketing Intensive, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration, Marketing Intensive at Ajou University
Business English, Business English at ILSC Vancouver
Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish