Korean Data MCP Hub

25 MCP tools for Korean media trends. Cluster-deduped, multilingual JSON for AI agents.

Part of Korean Data Hub — the data layer for our two products on the same pipeline. The other product (K-Star Hub at kstarhub.org) eats the same dogfood: a daily digest service for human video creators. The MCP product gives AI agents the same pre-clustered, deduped stories the digest service has been delivering since November.

What this Actor does

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes the Korean Data MCP Hub API to AI clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Continue.

It speaks stdio MCP — when Claude Desktop launches the Actor, it can call any of 25 tools across 11 Korean content categories.

Pricing model

Free Actor, paid backend. Apify charges nothing for running this Actor itself; you use your own Korean Data MCP Hub API key (BYO) to pay per call ($0.005 each, $5 free signup credit, no card required).

Get a key in 60 seconds: https://korean-data.com

Categories covered

Category	What's in it	Tier
K-Pop	Idol news, comebacks, charts	realtime
K-Drama	Scripted TV/streaming series	realtime
K-Movie	Korean cinema, film festivals	trend
K-Beauty	Cosmetics, skincare, brands	trend
K-Food	Korean cuisine, restaurants	trend
K-Game	Gaming industry, esports	trend
K-Tech	Korean tech, startups	trend
K-Stock	KOSPI, entertainment company financials	trend
K-Travel	Tourism, destinations	trend
K-Webtoon	Webtoons, Naver/Kakao	trend
K-Trends	General Korean cultural trends	trend

25 tools

• K-Pop specialized (5): get_kpop_news_today, get_artist_timeline, get_trending_clusters, search_news, generate_video_script
• Category factory (20): get_<cat>_weekly_trend + search_<cat>_archive × 10 categories

Each tool returns pre-clustered JSON (one row per real-world event, not per outlet) in EN / KO / JA / ES.

Token efficiency

Pre-clustering + LLM classification reduces input tokens 70-80% vs raw HTML scraping. The same Korean news event written 8× by 8 outlets becomes 1 cluster lead in our response.

Use in Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "korean-data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/actor-cli", "run", "upstanding_wax/korean-data-mcp-hub"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_USER_API_KEY": "kdmcp_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Ask: "What's trending in K-pop this week?" or "Search Korean news for 'NewJeans Hanni'".

Use directly (Apify Run UI / API)

Provide your API key as Actor input:

{
  "api_key": "kdmcp_..."
}

Resources

• 📚 Tool docs: https://korean-data.com/docs
• 🔑 Get an API key: https://korean-data.com ($5 free credit, no card)
• 💸 Top up: https://korean-data.com/topup ($10 minimum, $0.005/call)
• 📄 Refund policy: https://korean-data.com/refund
• 🐛 Issues: https://github.com/teddyan35-create/kstar-mcp/issues

Keywords

korean, k-pop, k-drama, k-beauty, k-food, k-movie, k-game, k-tech, k-stock, k-travel, k-webtoon, mcp, model-context-protocol, claude, cursor, ai-agent, news, trends, multilingual, korean-data