本研究探討 Netflix 韓國生存競賽實境節目《海妖的呼喚：火之島生存戰》（Siren: Survive the Island, 2023）中女性能動性的建構，以及台灣女性觀眾對其接收與詮釋。研究採用質性研究，結合敘事分析與對二十二位台灣女性的深度訪談，考察女性力量的再現如何在跨國媒介脈絡中被生產、解讀與協商。研究發現，《海妖的呼喚》主要透過專業性、集體生存與實務能力，來建構女性能動性，而非以傳統女性氣質建構。與此同時，這種賦權仍具有條件性：無論是在節目文本中，還是在觀眾的接收過程中，女性力量都會透過合法性、自我節制與可接受行為等期待來被評價。觀眾的回應也顯示，這些再現會透過地方性的專業框架、倫理觀與日常性別期待來加以理解。總體而言，本研究主張，跨國流動中的女性賦權敘事並非單純地跨越國界傳遞，而是在地方文化框架中被主動重新詮釋、常態化，並受到限制。

This study examines the construction of female agency in the Netflix Korean survival reality show Siren: Survive the Island (2023) and its reception among Taiwanese female audiences. Drawing on a qualitative design that combines narrative analysis with in-depth interviews with twenty-two Taiwanese women, the study investigates how representations of female strength are produced and negotiated in a transnational media context. The findings show that Siren constructs female agency through professionalism, collective survival, and functional competence rather than through conventional femininity. At the same time, this empowerment remains conditional: both the program and its audiences evaluate women’s strength through expectations of legitimacy, restraint, and acceptable conduct. Audience responses further suggest that these representations are interpreted through locally situated frameworks of professionalism, ethics, and everyday gender expectations. Overall, the study argues that transnational narratives of female empowerment are not simply transmitted across borders, but are actively reinterpreted, normalized, and constrained within local cultural frameworks.

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