An image compensation apparatus and method for compensating an image scanned using a micro scanning mirror is disclosed. The disclosed image correction apparatus includes a transform/storage unit for storing an original image consisting of image data having an M-row.times.N-column size, the transform/storage unit laterally reversing an order of the image data at intervals of one row, upon storing the original image, and storing the resultant image data of the original image, and a micro scanning mirror for horizontally scanning the image data read out from the transform/storage unit.