Abstract
The South Korean radio docudrama and adapted novelTake Me Home(1978) were based on the real-life case of Chol Soo Lee, who in 1974 was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States. Lee was later acquitted following a series of investigative reports and amid an emerging social movement calling for his release that spanned South Korea and the United States. Influenced by both the American civil rights movement and the Korean progressiveminjungideology,Take Me Homeis among several popular radio programs and novels that helped spark this transpacific movement by critiquing US hegemony and Korean state nationalism and by reimagining the figure of thetongp'oin the context of a nascent pan-Korean consciousness. This article traces how thetongp'ois foregrounded, constructed, and ultimately saved inTake Me Homeand argues that the radio novel's sonic imagination played a crucial role in broadcasting solidarity across the Pacific.
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