# today.thekorean/news (remote · www.thekorean.today)

Korean news (The Korean Today 코리안투데이): articles, 15 editions, AI summaries in 87 languages.

- Trust score: 69/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `www.thekorean.today`: 69/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.thekorean.today/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## 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**: 64/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 577 tokens (~115/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 87/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 60% 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the today.thekorean/news MCP server?

today.thekorean/news is a hosted endpoint at https://www.thekorean.today/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 today-thekorean-news 'https://www.thekorean.today/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "today-thekorean-news": {
      "url": "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "today-thekorean-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.today-thekorean-news]
url = "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "today-thekorean-news": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add today-thekorean-news --url 'https://www.thekorean.today/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  today-thekorean-news:
    url: "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "today-thekorean-news": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://www.thekorean.today/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add today-thekorean-news -t streamable-http -u 'https://www.thekorean.today/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "today-thekorean-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.thekorean.today/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.

### 2026-11-04 (score 69, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-03 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `search_articles` (~167 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): 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…
- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required): Search words
- `section` (string): Section slug from list_sections (e.g. society, economy, k-culture, technology).

### `latest_articles` (~136 tokens)

Latest articles

Most recent articles, optionally by section and language.

Input parameters:

- `lang` (string): 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…
- `limit` (integer)
- `section` (string): Section slug from list_sections (e.g. society, economy, k-culture, technology).

### `get_article` (~145 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `id` (integer)
- `lang` (string): 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…
- `url` (string)

### `list_sections` (~17 tokens)

List sections

News sections with slugs and article counts.

### `list_languages` (~24 tokens)

List languages

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

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 69
- 2026-11-04: 69
- 2026-11-03: 68

## Common questions

### What is the today.thekorean/news MCP server?

today.thekorean/news is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as today.thekorean/news. Korean news (The Korean Today 코리안투데이): articles, 15 editions, AI summaries in 87 languages. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.thekorean.today/mcp).

### Is the today.thekorean/news MCP server safe to use?

today.thekorean/news scores 69 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 today.thekorean/news MCP server expose?

today.thekorean/news exposes 5 tools: search_articles, latest_articles, get_article, list_sections, list_languages. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 489 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the today.thekorean/news MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to today.thekorean/news without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the today.thekorean/news MCP server still maintained?

today.thekorean/news 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://www.thekorean.today/mcp
- Website: https://www.thekorean.today/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/today-thekorean-news/www