Kakao Entertainment

Kakao Entertainment Corp. is the South Korean entertainment subsidiary of Kakao Corp., formed from the 2021 merger of Kakao Page and Kakao M. It operates three business lines — Story (Kakao Page and Kakao Webtoon serialized webtoon and web-novel platforms, plus the overseas Tapas and Radish properties), Music (the Melon streaming service and the StarShip, IST, EDAM and Antenna labels), and Media (film, drama and artist management). Its public machine-readable API surface is agent-native rather than REST: Melon publishes a first-party remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://mcp.melon.com/mcp, in beta, exposing 18 anonymously-introspectable tools for music search, official Melon charts, artist and album detail, genre browsing, personalized DJ Mallang recommendations, listening history and playlist/playback URL generation. Access is authenticated with OAuth 2.0 against the Melon Alliance Auth v3 platform, which publishes RFC 8414 authorization server metadata and an RFC 7591 dynamic client registration endpoint. Kakao Entertainment publishes no OpenAPI, no REST developer portal, and no SDKs; the corporate site and the Melon consumer properties carry no developer program. Kakao Corp's general developer platform at developers.kakao.com belongs to the parent company and is profiled separately as `kakao`.

Kakao Entertainment publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Entertainment, Music, Streaming, Webtoons, and Publishing.

Kakao Entertainment’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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16.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Entertainment Music Streaming Webtoons Publishing Media MCP Agents South Korea Company

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 16.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 20

Access Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Melon MCP Server

Melon's first-party remote Model Context Protocol server, published by Kakao Entertainment's AI Application Technology team. Streamable HTTP transport at https://mcp.melon.com/m...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Kakao Entertainment MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kakao Entertainment Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kakao Entertainment Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kakao Entertainment Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Kakao Entertainment Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kakao Entertainment Scopes

10 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kakao-entertainment
name: Kakao Entertainment
description: 'Kakao Entertainment Corp. is the South Korean entertainment subsidiary of Kakao Corp., formed from the 2021
  merger of Kakao Page and Kakao M. It operates three business lines — Story (Kakao Page and Kakao Webtoon serialized webtoon
  and web-novel platforms, plus the overseas Tapas and Radish properties), Music (the Melon streaming service and the StarShip,
  IST, EDAM and Antenna labels), and Media (film, drama and artist management). Its public machine-readable API surface is
  agent-native rather than REST: Melon publishes a first-party remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at https://mcp.melon.com/mcp,
  in beta, exposing 18 anonymously-introspectable tools for music search, official Melon charts, artist and album detail,
  genre browsing, personalized DJ Mallang recommendations, listening history and playlist/playback URL generation. Access
  is authenticated with OAuth 2.0 against the Melon Alliance Auth v3 platform, which publishes RFC 8414 authorization server
  metadata and an RFC 7591 dynamic client registration endpoint. Kakao Entertainment publishes no OpenAPI, no REST developer
  portal, and no SDKs; the corporate site and the Melon consumer properties carry no developer program. Kakao Corp''s general
  developer platform at developers.kakao.com belongs to the parent company and is profiled separately as `kakao`.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kakao-entertainment/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://www.kakaoent.com/favicon.ico
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
tags:
- Entertainment
- Music
- Streaming
- Webtoons
- Publishing
- Media
- MCP
- Agents
- South Korea
- Company
tags_raw:
- Entertainment
- Music
- Streaming
- Webtoons
- Publishing
- Media
- Model Context Protocol
- Agents
- South Korea
- Company
apis:
- aid: kakao-entertainment-melon-mcp
  name: Melon MCP Server
  description: Melon's first-party remote Model Context Protocol server, published by Kakao Entertainment's AI Application
    Technology team. Streamable HTTP transport at https://mcp.melon.com/mcp, OAuth 2.0 authenticated, currently beta. An anonymous
    tools/list call returns 18 tools with full JSON Schema input contracts covering music search, official charts, content
    and artist detail, genre browsing, curated and personalized recommendations, the signed-in user's liked/recent/most-listened
    history and playlists, and playback URL generation. Officially supported clients are Claude.ai / Claude Desktop and Kakao
    PlayMCP; OAuth redirect URI allowlisting and client credential issuance are managed by Melon on a per-partner allowlist.
  humanURL: https://tech.kakaoent.com/ai/using-melon-mcp-server-en/
  baseURL: https://mcp.melon.com/mcp
  tags:
  - Music
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Streaming
  tags_raw:
  - Music
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Agents
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/kakao-entertainment-mcp.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tech.kakaoent.com/ai/using-melon-mcp-server-en/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kakao-entertainment-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kakaoent.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://tech.kakaoent.com/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://tech.kakaoent.com/rss.xml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kakaoent
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kakaoent.com/privacy/policy
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kakao-entertainment-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kakao-entertainment-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/kakao-entertainment-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kakao-entertainment-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kakao-entertainment-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kakao-entertainment-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kakao-entertainment-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kakao-entertainment-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kakao-entertainment-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kakao-entertainment-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kakao-entertainment-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

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