Korean keyboard plus new applications

[hextejas]

Running 18.2, KDE 5.8.9

1) I am trying to enable Korean typing for one of the users. I have been looking everywhere for about 2 days now. I can get the indicator in the bottom bar to switch between Korean and English but I cannot type in Korean. I need to be able to do it in Libre office writer as well as gmail.

2) For some reason I cannot get "Install New Applications" to run. I get the password prompt then nothing happens. Any idea what causes this ?

[hextejas]

For some reason the Install New Applications has started working again, though it takes forever to start up after I enter the password.
One curious thing related to the language preferences is that when I add Korean as the 2nd language in Region preferences, all the page headings, options, etc in Install New Applications,,,show up in Korean.
I thought that since English US was 1st in the list, it would default to that but it does not..
Perhaps related is that when I was trying to do something in the console window, I saw what looked to be an error message fly about about "missing locale en_US-utf-8. I might have part of that wrong but I thought it was curious.

anybody know of another version of linux that handles foreign languages better ? I want the base to be English with Korean as an alternate.

It should not be this hard.

[GS3]

In my experience input in Asian languages works badly or not at all. See viewtopic.php?t=270077

[songhuijohn]

Here is how I step up switching language input for English and Korean.

This is based upon a US English installed Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon.

- left mouse click on Menu
- place cursor on Preferences and left mouse click on Language
- left mouse click on Input method tab
- left mouse click on Korean to install (your need to do this for the additional language input you want)
- after Korean was installed, left mouse click on input method drop down box, left mouse click on Ibus ( I do not know if IBUS is needed for all languages - I suspect when your language is installed, there will be a note below the word Installed for your language telling you what input method to use)
- close the Language setting screen
- left mouse click on Menu
- place cursor on Preferences and left mouse click on Ibus Preferences
- left mouse click on Input Method tab
- left mouse click on Add button
- from the drop down box left mouse click on language to add and then left mouse click on the add botton
- close the Ibus Preference screen
- restart Linux Mint (VERY IMPORTANT)

In the Panel area for my situation I now see and icon of EN. If I want to be able to enter a mixture of English and Korean, I enter win key + space bar and select Korean - the Korean symbol replaces the EN icon in the panel area. Then when entering key strokes into an application, I use the shift + space bar to switch between English and Korean.

[ChipSelect]

Followed the instruction from SonghuiJohn exactly and it works for me very well. I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon 19 on 32b Dell Inspiron Laptop.
Thanks.