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
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
- 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
  - 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