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Festival Times — Korean Festivals

By festivaltimes.net Verified namespace

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

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Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
576 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
6

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Outdated check

Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 576 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name festivaltimes.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 6 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 576 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 576 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    17 of 17 parameters have a description (100%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-10-31T11:22:55.812567Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Festival Times — Korean Festivals

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http festival-times-korean-festivals https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 6

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.

Discovered
get_festival

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).

Discovered
latest_news

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.

Discovered
search_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.

Discovered
search_concerts

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.

Discovered
search_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.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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Latest stored probes. Raw probe rows are kept for 14 days.
CheckedResultResponseTools
Connected576 ms6

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