The Stripe Tower · Busan, South Korea

Busan, South Korea — where the McSkunkville story finds new porch lights. These days, readers in Busan write to the town by the dozen, and McSkunkville keeps a porch light on for Busan.

The Stripe Tower was built the way the network reports: straight up, no shortcuts. Eighty-eight floors of glass catch the sunrise and hand it, floor by floor, down to the street.

The Main Five keep the top floor. Beneath them work three hundred researchers, archivists, stringers, and fact-checkers — every one of them trained on the house rule etched over the lobby doors: WE PRINT WHAT WE CAN PROVE.

At night the broadcast spire glows white, and truckers on Highway 75 use it to steer home.

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