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The Korean Today (코리안투데이) MCP Server

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The Korean Today (코리안투데이) is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Korean news: search, latest and full articles, 15 editions and AI summaries in 87 languages.

Uptime history 9 days of history · worst day 80%
9 days agonow
78.0%
Uptime 24h
71 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
2028 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

The Korean Today (코리안투데이) does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 94.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add news --transport http https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.news]
url = "https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

article
get_article
Full text and metadata of one article by id or URL. With lang, also returns the AI summary in that language and links to other language editions. Members-only articles return metadata only.
articles
search_articles
Full-text search of The Korean Today articles, newest first. Korean keywords work best for the Korean edition; use lang for another edition or to get translated summaries.
languages
list_languages
Language editions with their own articles, and the 87 languages with AI summaries.
latest
latest_articles
Most recent articles, optionally by section and language.
sections
list_sections
News sections with slugs and article counts.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp streamable-http answering 952 ms 13 min ago

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The Korean Today (코리안투데이) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can The Korean Today (코리안투데이) do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_article, latest_articles, list_languages, list_sections, search_articles. 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 (코리안투데이) working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 71 of 91 checks got a reply (78.0%), average response time 2028 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect The Korean Today (코리안투데이)?
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 The Korean Today (코리안투데이) need an API key?
No. The Korean Today (코리안투데이) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.