ANSWER: They are the cats that eat the rats that eat the silkworms.
Rats apparently like to eat silkworms (누에), so in China and other countries that raised silkworms, cats were used to protect the silkworms from the rats. These cats were called "silkworm (蠶 잠) cats (猫 묘)." And apparently the Chinese believed that even pictures of cats stuck to the walls of the silkworm rooms would help scare away the rats.
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