China was described as a safe shelter and a civilized and scholarly country in Unofficial Stories Compiled by Eou，a Korean folktale collection written by Yu Mong-in and published in the 17th century. This image derives from the collective memory and imagination of the Korean nation towards China in the long history：the Korean survivors had been rescued in China for many times and the literati actively learned Chinese classical literature. It is also related to the historical context of this masterpiece in which the two countries cooperated to resist Japan in the Imjin War at the end of the 16th century，increasing the Korean nation’s trust in China and enhancing Korean literati’s identification with Chinese culture. The image of China in this masterpiece indicates that China and the Korean Peninsula are a community in the collective memory and imagination of the Korean nation.