# Korea Festival Guide (remote · kfestivals.com)

South Korean festivals by region and date, K-pop concerts, weekly festival picks and 2-day routes

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `kfestivals.com`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 57/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - 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.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 3/100
  - Stability observed for 1 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 96/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 88% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http babo072-kfestivals 'https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "babo072-kfestivals": {
      "url": "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "babo072-kfestivals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.babo072-kfestivals]
url = "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "babo072-kfestivals": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add babo072-kfestivals --url 'https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  babo072-kfestivals:
    url: "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "babo072-kfestivals": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add babo072-kfestivals -t streamable-http -u 'https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "babo072-kfestivals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 68, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-04 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (4)

### `search_festivals` (~318 tokens)

Search festivals in South Korea

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.

Input parameters:

- `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

### `get_festival` (~131 tokens)

Festival details

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): 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.

### `search_concerts` (~253 tokens)

K-pop and popular-music concerts in Korea

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.

Input parameters:

- `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

### `get_festival_picks` (~94 tokens)

This week's festival picks and 2-day routes

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.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): Answer language for names, venues and descriptions. Source data is Korean; other languages are machine translations.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 68
- 2026-11-04: 68

## Common questions

### 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://kfestivals.com/api/mcp
- Website: https://kfestivals.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/babo072-kfestivals/api-mcp