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The Korean Today news search MCP Server

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The Korean Today news search is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

Search and read recent articles of The Korean Today, with source links and dates.

Uptime history 69 hours of history
69 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
903 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check The Korean Today news search every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add koreantoday --transport http https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "koreantoday": {
      "url": "https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.koreantoday]
url = "https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "koreantoday": {
      "url": "https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "koreantoday": {
      "url": "https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

news
list_news_categories
List Korean Today categories (id, name, article count, parent) ordered by count. Also reports which category ids are treated as the site's own promotional ones.
search_news
Search Korean Today articles by keyword, with optional category and date range. Returns title, date, short excerpt and source url. Matches title and body text, so relevance varies.
article
get_article
Get one article by id as plain text, truncated (default 3000 chars, max 8000) with a link to read the full article at the source.
latest
latest_news
List the most recent Korean Today articles, optionally within one category.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp-koreantoday.smilestory.ai/mcp streamable-http answering 886 ms 9 min ago

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The Korean Today news search — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Korean Today news search do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, latest_news, list_news_categories, search_news. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is The Korean Today news search working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 903 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect The Korean Today news search?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does The Korean Today news search need an API key?
No. The Korean Today news search completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is The Korean Today news search?
It answers our handshake in 903 ms on average, which is faster than 9% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.