Korea Festival Guide
REMOTE · KFESTIVALS.COM
South Korean festivals by region and date, K-pop concerts, weekly festival picks and 2-day routes
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Last scanned (3 hours ago)
Scores higher than 53% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Entertainment and Games
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security74
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability57
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 912 tokens (~228/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management3
- Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage96
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 88% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 0
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- 4 Nov 26 68
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=kfestivals.com | CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US | 29 Oct 2026 | 27 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 5aa6738ab1d34544e7a9be538b1870ed4e0 |
| SANs: *.kfestivals.com, kfestivals.com | ||||||
| CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) | CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 Sept 2028 | ECDSA 384 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 4df3b15dd6c0784c507cd37b58e6f115 |
| CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | ECDSA 384 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a |
| CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) | CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US | 13 May 2026 | 2 Sept 2032 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of kfestivals.com. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| kfestivals.com. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://kfestivals.com/api/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_festival Festival details ~131
Full details of one festival by id (from search_festivals or get_festival_picks): dates, venue and address with coordinates, admission and price, description, organizer, phone, official website, image and the kfestivals page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | Festival id, e.g. 7828d5f4-9b6a-42c8-90bb-3ca13479e6a6 or tour-3368470 |
| lang | string | – | Answer language for names, venues and descriptions. Source data is Korean; other languages are machine translations. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_festival_picks This week's festival picks and 2-day routes ~94
kfestivals' latest weekly article — the festivals and concerts worth going to this week — and its 'festival trail' 2-day routes that link 2–4 nearby festivals by day. Returns the article text, the listed events with dates and pages, and the article page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| lang | string | – | Answer language for names, venues and descriptions. Source data is Korean; other languages are machine translations. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_concerts K-pop and popular-music concerts in Korea ~253
K-pop, idol, band and other popular-music concerts in South Korea registered with KOPIS (the national performing-arts box office database), not yet ended, soonest first. Filter by artist or title keyword, province and dates. Returns dates, venue, poster, the KOPIS page and the kfestivals page.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date_from | string | – | Concerts running on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD (default today, KST) |
| date_to | string | – | Concerts starting on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD |
| lang | string | – | Answer language for names, venues and descriptions. Source data is Korean; other languages are machine translations. |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| query | string | – | Artist or title keyword, e.g. 'EXO', '아이유', 'jazz' |
| region | string | – | Province or metropolitan city: seoul, busan, incheon, daegu, daejeon, gwangju, ulsan, sejong, gyeonggi, gangwon, chungbuk, chungnam, jeonbuk, jeonnam, gyeongbuk, gyeongnam, jeju |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_festivals Search festivals in South Korea ~318
Festivals in South Korea that run during a date range (default: today to 30 days ahead, KST), optionally filtered by province, keyword and free admission, soonest first. Returns name, dates, status, region, venue, free/paid, a short summary and the kfestivals page. Exhibitions and shows running longer than 60 days are left out unless include_long_running is true.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date_from | string | – | Start of the date range, YYYY-MM-DD (default today, KST) |
| date_to | string | – | End of the date range, YYYY-MM-DD (default 30 days after today, or date_from when only that is given) |
| free_only | boolean | – | Only festivals with free admission |
| include_long_running | boolean | – | Include exhibitions/shows running longer than 60 days |
| lang | string | – | Answer language for names, venues and descriptions. Source data is Korean; other languages are machine translations. |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| query | string | – | Keyword in Korean or the answer language, e.g. '불꽃', 'lantern', 'chrysanthemum', '김장' |
| region | string | – | Province or metropolitan city: seoul, busan, incheon, daegu, daejeon, gwangju, ulsan, sejong, gyeonggi, gangwon, chungbuk, chungnam, jeonbuk, jeonnam, gyeongbuk, gyeongnam, jeju |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Korea Festival Guide MCP server?
Korea Festival Guide is a hosted endpoint at https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · kfestivals.com
claude mcp add --transport http babo072-kfestivals 'https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp'
What is the Korea Festival Guide MCP server?
Korea Festival Guide is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.babo072/kfestivals. South Korean festivals by region and date, K-pop concerts, weekly festival picks and 2-day routes. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp).
Is the Korea Festival Guide MCP server safe to use?
Korea Festival Guide scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Korea Festival Guide MCP server expose?
Korea Festival Guide exposes 4 tools: search_festivals, get_festival, search_concerts, get_festival_picks. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 796 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Korea Festival Guide MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Korea Festival Guide without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Korea Festival Guide MCP server still maintained?
Korea Festival Guide is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.