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This research was conducted designed to find out how coaching activity of taekwondo leader in university would effect of satisfying psychological needs and motivation of players. Total 300 taekwondo players were involved in this research, which means 30 taekwondo players - men and women - were selected from 10 four-year-universities respectively, all of which are currently registered under Korean Takwondo Association as of 2011. The research adopted judgment sampling method to extract samples. 300 survey papers were distributed, then 286 samples were retrieved and subsequently, 254 papers were involved in final analysis. Regarding survey’s degree of confidence, the value of Cronbach’s α was over .747. Methods such as factorial analysis, reliability analysis, and multiple regression analysis by using SPSSWIN 18.0 were adopted to analyze the collected data. Results show as follows. Firstly, coaching activities of taekwondo leaders in university have influence on satisfying the psychological needs of players. The result of analysis shows that specific factors of coaching activity such as training instruction, proactive behaviour, positive reinforcement, and social support affect on satisfying psychological needs of players. Secondly, coaching activity administered by taekwondo leaders of university has an effect on workout motivation of players. According to the result of the research, specific factors of coaching activities mentioned above influence on the motivation. Thirdly, when their psychological needs are met, it has an impact on workout motivation. Analysis result shows that specific factors that signify their psychological needs are met such as competency and autonomy have impact on workout motivation of players.