Korean News Hub MCP Server
io.github.SongT-50/korean-news-mcp
answering
Korean News Hub is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 9 Mar 2026.
Korean news aggregator - Naver, Google News, Daum trends in real-time
Uptime history
40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
1046 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 9 Mar 2026
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add korean-news-mcp --transport http https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"korean-news-mcp": {
"url": "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.korean-news-mcp]
url = "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"korean-news-mcp": {
"url": "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"korean-news-mcp": {
"url": "https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 6
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
article
read_article
Read and extract article content from a URL.
Args:
url: The article URL to read
daily
daily_briefing
Generate a comprehensive daily news briefing.
Combines Korean headlines + AI/tech news + Claude/Anthropic news.
korean
korean_news
Get Korean news by category.
Args:
category: News category. Options: 속보, 정치, 경제, 사회, IT, 세계, 연예, 스포츠
count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)
news
news_search
Search news by keyword.
Args:
query: Search keyword (e.g. "Samsung AI", "Claude Code", "MCP server")
language: "ko" (Korean) or "en" (English)
count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)
tech
tech_news
Get global AI/tech news by topic.
Args:
topic: Tech topic. Options: AI, Claude, OpenAI, MCP, OpenClaw, 스타트업, 개발, 클라우드
count: Number of articles (default 10, max 20)
trending
trending
Get current trending/headline news.
Args:
scope: "korea" (Korean headlines) or "tech" (global tech trends)
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 658 ms | 7 min ago |
Korean News Hub — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Korean News Hub do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: daily_briefing, korean_news, news_search, read_article, tech_news, trending. 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 Korean News Hub working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1046 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Korean News Hub?
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 Korean News Hub need an API key?
No. Korean News Hub completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Korean News Hub?
It answers our handshake in 1046 ms on average, which is faster than 4% 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.
Is Korean News Hub open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.