Language Problem - Korean text not displaying on Linux Mint 18

[ABERRANT]

I'm trying to get the game up on linux mint with Korean enabled. Firstly, it seems like setting the language option in the menu doesn't work. I can get around that by setting the steam locale to Korean. However, whenever I try to load the game up, it doesn't display any text. The menu options are blank, and the subtites only show punctuation (like periods and question marks)

English works fine without any issues. Anybody know why portal and linux with a different language is having an issue?

[Calmly Frenetic]

There are some suggestions about "libfontconfig" and font packages here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/400/discussions/0/412446292775908119/

Other players had success by opting in to the beta:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/400/discussions/0/828937979207436733/

Subtitles and the game menus use the same text language as the Steam interface.
Or you can independently set the "closed caption language" by setting the cc_lang parameter in-game using the developer console. For example:
cc_lang korean
cc_lang ""