In terms of political history, modern Korean-Chinese relations can be divided into four periods: the period of dual international order, the transitional period after the collapse of the tributary system, the period of the modern Korea-China treaty system, and the period after the Protection Treaty (1905). The results of the analysis, after quantifying the entire legal case between modern Korea and China in the Documents of Chinese Diplomatic Offices in Korea ｢Lawsuit｣, show that the political situation was not very influential on the lawsuits. Even when China had a powerful political influence in Korea, there were still more victims in China than in Korea. When suits were filed for damages, there was a higher likelihood that suits filed by Koreans would be solved than those filed by Chinese people, except in the period during which the modern Korea-China treaty system was functional. Though the underlying issues hidden behind the statistics need to be covered in more in-depth studies in the future, it is necessary to break away from the “victim mentality”—in which it is assumed that Koreans are always victimized by Chinese in Korean-Chinese relations due to political oppression in modern Korea—and to conduct a more objective evaluation of events using a range of sources.