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The Korean Today (코리안투데이)

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

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

B
Description quality
90%
Schema completeness
63%
Naming quality
96%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Findings (1)

  • LOWTool 'latest_articles' description lacks action verbin latest_articles

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~765Tokens (tool definitions)
~920 BTypical response size
Moderate attention impact (0.60% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://smilestory.thekoreantoday.com/mcpstreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (5)

🟢 Read-only🟡 Write🔴 Delete⚪ Unknown
🟢search_articles(query, lang, section, limit)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search words"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code. Edition codes (own articles): ko, en, fr, zh, ja, vi, th, id, lo, es, pt, ar, de, mn, ru. Any of the 87 AI summary languages (e.g. vi, th, hi, sw, zh-CN, pt-BR) returns Korean articles with a translated title and summary. Default ko."
    },
    "section": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Section slug from list_sections (e.g. society, economy, k-culture, technology)."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20,
      "default": 10
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}
🟢latest_articles(lang, section, limit)

Most recent articles, optionally by section and language.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code. Edition codes (own articles): ko, en, fr, zh, ja, vi, th, id, lo, es, pt, ar, de, mn, ru. Any of the 87 AI summary languages (e.g. vi, th, hi, sw, zh-CN, pt-BR) returns Korean articles with a translated title and summary. Default ko."
    },
    "section": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Section slug from list_sections (e.g. society, economy, k-culture, technology)."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20,
      "default": 10
    }
  }
}
🟢get_article(id, url, lang)

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.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Language code. Edition codes (own articles): ko, en, fr, zh, ja, vi, th, id, lo, es, pt, ar, de, mn, ru. Any of the 87 AI summary languages (e.g. vi, th, hi, sw, zh-CN, pt-BR) returns Korean articles with a translated title and summary. Default ko."
    }
  }
}
🟢list_sections

News sections with slugs and article counts.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}
🟢list_languages

Language editions with their own articles, and the 87 languages with AI summaries.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {}
}

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Evidence

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