This article aimed at collecting, analyzing merman stories in Eastern Asia and examining possibility as cultural contents. Asian merman was called Kyo-in, Neng-in, Jeo-in and Haeinuh. The merman were real familiar to medieval Asian. Asian merman had human face. They were as tall as human-being and they had scaleless white skin. And Kyo-in made silk, their tears became pearls. Western mermaid was hostile to human, developed by mutation, but Asian merman was very friendly to human-being, they knew returning one`s favor. They are weaker and feebler than human. Western merman stories started as negative images, but they were reborn to medial images, fantastic images and patron saint`s images. If Asian merman stories are created, we can make a lot of interesting narrative structures.
