Korean News Hub MCP Server

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Korean News Hub is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 9 Mar 2026.

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

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 0%

51 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

239 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 9 Mar 2026

Korean News Hub does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 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

~/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	239 ms	6 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 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 239 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Korean News Hub as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

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.

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.