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The current study had three aims: (1) to validate a Korean version of the Student Athletes’ Motivation toward Sports and Academics Question-naire (SAMSAQ-Kr), (2) to examine South Korean university stu-dent-athletes’ motivation towards athletic and academic achievement, and (3) to identify the relationship between athletic identity and their athletic and academic achievement. A total of 126 South Korean univer-sity student-athletes (41.4% males and 58.6% females; mean age 20.5, SD = 2.74) completed the SAMSAQ-Kr. To investigate the validity evi-dence of the SAMSAQ-Kr a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Rasch model were employed. To examine the relationship between Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) and SAMSAQ for Spear-man correlation coefficients were calculated. Findings indicated that the SAMSAQ-Kr showed a different model from other versions and re-vealed positive correlations between AIMS scores and athletic motiva-tions. The current study highlighted that importance of considering so-cio-cultural context in developing questionnaire and contributed to help understand South Korean university student-athletes’ motivation to-wards athletic and academic achievement.