Our Team
As a team, we have handled hundreds of Asian-language business card and other translation orders over the years. You can rest assured that your order will be handled with care and professionalism, too.
Steven S. Bammel
President/Project Management
A graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington (College of Business Administration), Steven S. Bammel worked in Seoul for nearly five years as an employee within the LG Group of South Korea. During that time, he learned about Korean business practices from the inside as the only non-Korean member of a team handling international trade support work for LG International, Corp. During this time, Steven also promoted overseas sales for several Korean companies and edited/translated hundreds of documents.
Steven returned to the US in 1999 and founded Korean Consulting & Translation Service, Inc. in mid-2000. During the first several years of building the business, Steven, his wife Myunghee and two children Treasure and Cauvery, shared their time between Irving, Texas and the company’s corporate apartment near Seoul, Korea. Thanks to a perfectionist mindset and deep understanding of the requirements of translation clients, not to mention high-level Korean skills, Steven and his team have successfully handled thousands of Korean translation projects, mainly for US-based companies and agencies, but also for individuals and companies around the world.
In early 2008, the Bammels returned to Korea on a semi-permanent basis
while Steven studies at the Graduate School of Business Administration
at Hanyang University to further develop his unique Korean business perspective.
With particular emphasis on improving his language skills in an immersive
Korean learning environment, Steven’s academic efforts focus on the
critical factors that lead to successful Korean market entry by foreign
companies. These insights are being developed into a comprehensive set of
training and education modules to reinforce the business results of company
clients.
Steven can be reached most conveniently through the contact form on this
website or by email.
Hongil Kim
Korean Translation
Hongil Kim attended Hallym University in Chooncheon, Korea, earning a B.A. in Korean Literature, which he then supplemented with extensive travels throughout East Asia and to North America. Working his way up from an entry-level in-house translator job for a translation agency in Seoul, he later managed computer and Internet-related projects for clients throughout Korea and around the world.
Almost since moving into his current position in 1998, Hongil has worked closely with Steven to oversee one of the most professional translation teams in Korea, with expertise in diverse areas. Over 5,000 translation projects of Korean Consulting & Translation Service, Inc. have been handled directly under Hongil’s careful supervision.
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Toshihiko Harada
Japanese Translation
Our man in Japan, Toshihiiko Harada, knows his stuff… both in Japanese and Korean! This is clear from the amazing feedback we’ve gotten from clients ordering the hundreds of business cards and other translations he’s handled for us over the years. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where he became fluent in English and Korean. And he lived right next door to us in Fort Worth, Texas – as well as in Minnesota – several years ago, giving him a special international perspective for business.
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Joseph Chen
Simplified and Traditional Chinese Translation
Joseph is our go-to guy for all Chinese translations. His experiences living and studying abroad (M.S. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA) make him uniquely suited to handling the nuances of business translation. Currently based out of Shenzhen, his team includes Simplified and Traditional Chinese linguists in China and Taiwan specializing in technical documents in various fields, as well as marketing materials. We are fortunate to work with such a resource.
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Zeng Xiang-Wen
Typesetting & Technical Design
A desktop publishing and translation process expert with over six years’ experience in a multinational localization agency and another seven years working independently and with us, Zeng Xiang-Wen and his team in Shenzhen, China have produced successful localization products for some of the most reputed companies worldwide, including HP, Dell, Compaq, Nokia, GE and many others. His comprehensive computer application knowledge, combined with proven problem-solving skills, ensure that professionally-prepared client documents come out perfectly at the printer even when working with less-than-ideal source files. You can’t go wrong with Xiang’s workmanship and attention to detail.
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Catalin Soreanu
Artistic Design
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