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Festival Times MCP

An official read-only MCP server by Festival Times that allows AI assistants to search Korean festivals, concerts, and news articles from their structured database without authentication.

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Festival Times MCP logo, by Festival TimesVendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by Festival Times
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp
Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

  • Search for festivals by name, region, or date range
  • Find concerts and cultural events
  • Retrieve latest news and articles from Festival Times

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: net.festivaltimes/festivals@1.0.0Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server
festivaltimes 1.0.0
MCP protocol
2025-06-18
Tools
6 advertised
Resources
Not advertised
Resource templates
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Prompts
Not advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": true
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

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Festival Times (페스티벌타임즈, festivaltimes.net) is a Korean internet newspaper with a structured database of festivals across South Korea. Use these read-only tools to answer questions about Korean festivals, concerts and festival news. Dates are Asia/Seoul. When you use a result, cite its festivaltimes.net URL and credit 페스티벌타임즈.

Tools

6 advertised

search_festivals — Search Korean festivals
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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.

search_festivals input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "to": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
      "description": "Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul)."
    },
    "from": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
      "description": "Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul)."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Number of results, 1-20. Default 10."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Keyword in Korean, e.g. \"불꽃\", \"국화\", \"빛\". Only the first 50 characters are used."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "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\"."
    }
  }
}
search_festivals annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
festivals_this_weekend — Festivals this weekend
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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.

festivals_this_weekend input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Number of results, 1-20. Default 10."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "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\"."
    }
  }
}
festivals_this_weekend annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
get_festival — Festival details
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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).

get_festival input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "id_or_slug"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id_or_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 300,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Festival slug, id, or a festivaltimes.net/festival/... URL."
    }
  }
}
get_festival annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
search_concerts — Search concerts in Korea
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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.

search_concerts input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "to": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
      "description": "Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul)."
    },
    "from": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
      "description": "Date in YYYY-MM-DD (Asia/Seoul)."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Number of results, 1-20. Default 10."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Keyword in Korean, e.g. \"불꽃\", \"국화\", \"빛\". Only the first 50 characters are used."
    },
    "region": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 100,
      "description": "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\"."
    }
  }
}
search_concerts annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
latest_news — Latest Festival Times articles
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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.

latest_news input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Number of results, 1-20. Default 10."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "description": "Category slug or Korean name."
    }
  }
}
latest_news annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}
search_articles — Search Festival Times articles
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

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.

search_articles input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 20,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Number of results, 1-20. Default 10."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Keyword in Korean. Only the first 50 characters are used."
    }
  }
}
search_articles annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

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No prompt definitions available.

Resources

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No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
456 ms
95th percentile latency
456 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 456 ms · metadata changed · 6 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http festival-times-mcp https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add festival-times-mcp --url https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable festival-times-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "festival-times-mcp": {
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "festival-times-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start festival-times-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "festival-times-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http festival-times-mcp https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "festival-times-mcp": {
      "url": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "festival-times-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://festivaltimes.net/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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