Imagination is required in a lifelong learning society so as to make knowledge applicable in solving various problems. Imagination is a capability to configure unrealistic regions from the phenomenological perspective, and a creative function responsible for understanding and interpreting the world from the hermeneutic viewpoint. Cultural philosophy views imagination as an ability for symbol formation based on epistemological and esthetic functions. Considering narrative is a story, a mode of thinking, and a cultural toolkit for understanding and making human mind, the imagination from the narrative viewpoint is closely related to narrative thinking in charge of making plausible stories, changing and reinforcing cultural scripts, and communicating culturally and cross-culturally.