# Festival Times — Korean Festivals (remote · festivaltimes.net)

Korean festivals, concerts and festival news from Festival Times (festivaltimes.net). Read-only.

- Trust score: 75/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `festivaltimes.net`: 75/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/net-festivaltimes-festivals/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/net-festivaltimes-festivals/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://festivaltimes.net/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**: 80/100
  - 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.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - 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**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 998 tokens (~166/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% 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 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 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 Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server?

Festival Times — Korean Festivals is a hosted endpoint at https://festivaltimes.net/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 net-festivaltimes-festivals 'https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "net-festivaltimes-festivals": {
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "net-festivaltimes-festivals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.net-festivaltimes-festivals]
url = "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "net-festivaltimes-festivals": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add net-festivaltimes-festivals --url 'https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  net-festivaltimes-festivals:
    url: "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "net-festivaltimes-festivals": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add net-festivaltimes-festivals -t streamable-http -u 'https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "net-festivaltimes-festivals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/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 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 73, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-31 (score 72)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_festivals` (~242 tokens)

Search Korean festivals

Search festivals in South Korea from the Festival Times (페스티벌타임즈) festival database. Returns festivals running at any point between `from` and `to` (default: today to 30 days later), with name, dates, region, venue, a short summary and the canonical festivaltimes.net URL. Data is in Korean. Always cite the returned URL when you use a result.

Input parameters:

- `from` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul).
- `limit` (integer): Number of results, 1-20. Default 10.
- `query` (string): Keyword in Korean, e.g. "불꽃", "국화", "빛". Only the first 50 characters are used.
- `region` (string): Korean region name: a province/metropolitan city such as "경기", "경기도", "서울", "부산", "강원", "전남광주", optionally followed by a city/county such as "경기도 수원시" or just "수원".
- `to` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul).

### `festivals_this_weekend` (~151 tokens)

Festivals this weekend

List festivals in South Korea running this coming weekend (Saturday-Sunday, Asia/Seoul; on a Sunday, just today), optionally limited to a region. Use for questions like "이번 주말 경기도 축제". Each result carries its festivaltimes.net URL; cite it.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Number of results, 1-20. Default 10.
- `region` (string): Korean region name: a province/metropolitan city such as "경기", "경기도", "서울", "부산", "강원", "전남광주", optionally followed by a city/county such as "경기도 수원시" or just "수원".

### `get_festival` (~81 tokens)

Festival details

Full public details of one festival: dates, venue, address, organizer, host, fees, phone, official homepage, description and related Festival Times articles. Pass the slug or URL returned by search_festivals (or the festival id).

Input parameters:

- `id_or_slug` (string, required): Festival slug, id, or a festivaltimes.net/festival/... URL.

### `search_concerts` (~224 tokens)

Search concerts in Korea

Search popular-music concerts in South Korea (KOPIS data as published on the Festival Times English edition). Filter by keyword (title, performer, venue), region and dates (default: today to 30 days later). Returns Korean titles with dates, venue, performers, price and the festivaltimes.net URL.

Input parameters:

- `from` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul).
- `limit` (integer): Number of results, 1-20. Default 10.
- `query` (string): Keyword in Korean, e.g. "불꽃", "국화", "빛". Only the first 50 characters are used.
- `region` (string): Korean region name: a province/metropolitan city such as "경기", "경기도", "서울", "부산", "강원", "전남광주", optionally followed by a city/county such as "경기도 수원시" or just "수원".
- `to` (string): Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul).

### `latest_news` (~133 tokens)

Latest Festival Times articles

Latest published articles from Festival Times (페스티벌타임즈), a Korean newspaper covering festivals. Optional category by slug or Korean name, e.g. "festival-news" (축제뉴스), "guide" (축제가이드), "industry" (축제산업), "culture" (공연/전시), "expo" (박람회), "world" (해외축제). Returns title, date, summary and URL.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string): Category slug or Korean name.
- `limit` (integer): Number of results, 1-20. Default 10.

### `search_articles` (~86 tokens)

Search Festival Times articles

Search published Festival Times articles by keyword in the title or summary (Korean keywords work best, e.g. a festival or town name). Returns newest first with title, date, summary and URL.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer): Number of results, 1-20. Default 10.
- `query` (string, required): Keyword in Korean. Only the first 50 characters are used.

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 75
- 2026-11-04: 74
- 2026-11-03: 74
- 2026-11-02: 73
- 2026-11-01: 73
- 2026-10-31: 72

## Common questions

### What is the Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server?

Festival Times — Korean Festivals is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as net.festivaltimes/festivals. Korean festivals, concerts and festival news from Festival Times (festivaltimes.net). Read-only. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp).

### Is the Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server safe to use?

Festival Times — Korean Festivals scores 75 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 Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server expose?

Festival Times — Korean Festivals exposes 6 tools: search_festivals, festivals_this_weekend, get_festival, search_concerts, latest_news, search_articles. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 917 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Festival Times — Korean Festivals without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Festival Times — Korean Festivals MCP server still maintained?

Festival Times — Korean Festivals 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://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp
- Website: https://festivaltimes.net/mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/net-festivaltimes-festivals/api-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/net-festivaltimes-festivals/api-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/net-festivaltimes-festivals/api-mcp