@article{ART003386033},
author={Hwang Jiyeon},
title={Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2026},
number={89},
pages={51-88},
doi={10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hwang Jiyeon
TI - Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 89
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 51
EP - 88
SN - 1225-7729
AB - This study examines how competition and elimination are organized through militarized forms in the Netflix survival reality shows Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. The three shows frame physical suffering as evidence of self-overcoming, women professionals’ risk-taking and achievements as evidence of their commitment to a mission, and hierarchical labor and self-exhaustion as evidence of professional pride. This study conceptualizes “militarization” as the process through which competition is organized according to military-style discipline and mission-oriented performance. It further defines “militaristic fantasy” as a cultural form through which militaristic values are experienced in narratives of emotional resonance and self-validation. By analyzing the theatrical form of survival reality shows, in which real bodies intersect with artificially constructed situations, this study demonstrates how the violence of competition and self-exhaustion are transformed into evidence of heroism and how elimination is reconstructed as a meaningful occasion for self-validation.
KW - Militarism;Militaristic Fantasy;Militarization;Self-Exhaustion;Stanislavski’s Acting Theory;Survival Reality Shows
DO - 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
ER -
Hwang Jiyeon. (2026). Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 89, 51-88.
Hwang Jiyeon. 2026, "Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.89, pp.51-88. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon "Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 89 pp.51-88 (2026) : 51.
Hwang Jiyeon. Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. 2026; 89 : 51-88. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon. "Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.89(2026) : 51-88.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon. Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 89, 51-88. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon. Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2026; 89 51-88. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon. Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars. 2026; 89 : 51-88. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
Hwang Jiyeon. "Self-Overcoming, Mission, and Pride: Militaristic Fantasy in Netflix Survival Reality Shows — Focusing on Physical: 100, Siren: Survive the Island, and Culinary Class Wars" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.89(2026) : 51-88.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..89.51
