Korean News Hub MCP Server

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answering

Korean News Hub is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 9 Mar 2026.

Korean news aggregator - Naver, Google News, Daum trends in real-time

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

276 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Mar 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add korean-news-mcp --transport http https://korean-news-mcp.onrender.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "korean-news-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "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	248 ms	13 min ago

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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 276 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 in the form 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 276 ms on average, which is faster than 51% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Korean News Hub open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at korean-news-mcp.onrender.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.