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Korean Crypto

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Korean Crypto is a purpose-built MCP server that streams real-time price data, order books, and candlestick information directly from major Korean exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb. For teams building crypto trading bots, portfolio trackers, or arbitrage tools that need visibility into the Korean market — often referenced for the so-called 'kimchi premium' relative to global exchanges — this server gives any AI agent structured, queryable access to live and historical market data without needing to manage exchange API keys, rate limits, or WebSocket connections directly.

Hosted through BusinessMCP.com, Korean Crypto is exposed via a single unified MCP endpoint at /api/mcp, authenticated with a Bearer mcph_* key. That means Claude, GPT, Gemini, or any model-agnostic agent framework can call the same tool definitions without you rewriting integration logic for each provider. Because the connection is cookieless and GDPR-friendly, it fits cleanly into compliance-conscious fintech stacks, and because it's managed hosting, you avoid the operational overhead of running your own Upbit or Bithumb data pipeline, handling reconnects, or normalizing mismatched API schemas across exchanges.

What makes this particularly useful inside the BusinessMCP model is that Korean Crypto doesn't have to live in isolation. It plugs into the same hosted MCP server as your other tools, databases, and revenue systems, so an agent researching Korean exchange spreads can, in the same conversation, cross-reference wallet activity, pull technical indicators, or check a Stripe payout — all through one endpoint and one business-intelligence dashboard. That unified view is valuable for finance teams, crypto product managers, and quant researchers who currently stitch together separate scripts to watch Korean order book depth alongside global market signals.

Typical users include algorithmic trading teams that want candle and order book snapshots from Upbit and Bithumb fed into a strategy engine, market research analysts tracking Korea-specific price divergence against USD-denominated exchanges, and product teams building Korean-market crypto dashboards or alerting tools for retail investors. Because the server is designed for agent consumption, it's equally suited to conversational use — an analyst can simply ask their AI assistant for the latest BTC/KRW order book depth or a 4-hour candle series and get a clean, structured response rather than raw JSON to parse by hand.

Setting it up follows the same pattern as every server in the BusinessMCP catalog: connect Korean Crypto once inside the growth-suite dashboard, and it becomes immediately callable by any agent hitting your /api/mcp endpoint, with usage and activity visible in the same BI layer you use for your other integrations. There's no need to separately manage Upbit or Bithumb credentials per project, no per-agent reconfiguration, and no vendor lock-in to a single LLM provider — just a consistent, monitored data layer for Korean crypto markets that scales with however many agents or workflows you plug into it.

$ npx mcphosting-cli add koreafintech-korean-crypto

Just say it in a thread

No configs, no docs. Once connected, these are the kinds of messages your agents act on.

"Fetch the current price and 24h change for a specified trading pair on upbit or bithumb — and give me the highlights."

"Retrieve real-time bid/ask order book depth for a given korean exchange market for me, then post a summary in the thread."

"Return historical candlestick data (minute, hour, day) for a specified crypto pair and timeframe and flag anything that needs my approval."

What teams use it for

  • Feed live Upbit and Bithumb order book and candle data into an algorithmic trading strategy
  • Track price divergence between Korean exchanges and global markets for arbitrage research
  • Build a conversational agent that answers questions about Korean crypto market conditions
  • Power a Korean-market crypto dashboard with real-time price and candle feeds
  • Monitor Korean exchange liquidity and order book depth for risk management

Agent-callable tools

get_ticker_price

Fetch the current price and 24h change for a specified trading pair on Upbit or Bithumb.

get_order_book

Retrieve real-time bid/ask order book depth for a given Korean exchange market.

get_candles

Return historical candlestick data (minute, hour, day) for a specified crypto pair and timeframe.

list_markets

List all available trading pairs currently offered on Upbit and Bithumb.

get_recent_trades

Fetch a list of the most recent executed trades for a given market.

compare_exchange_prices

Compare the same trading pair's price across Upbit and Bithumb to surface spread differences.

Your data stays yours

Credentials live in your vault. We route requests — we never store, log, or train on your data.

Works with every AI

Connect once — portable across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and every local agent you run.

Frequently asked questions

Which exchanges does Korean Crypto pull data from?

It sources real-time price data, order books, and candles primarily from major Korean exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb.

Can I use this with any AI model, not just one provider?

Yes, it's exposed through a model-agnostic MCP endpoint at /api/mcp, so Claude, GPT, Gemini, or other agents can all call the same tools.

Do I need to manage my own exchange API keys or rate limits?

No, BusinessMCP manages the connection to Upbit and Bithumb as a hosted service, so you just authenticate with your mcph_* Bearer key and query the data.

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