The purpose of the present study was to examine relationships between athletic identity, resources related to transitions, and the quality of career transition adjustment of Korean Olympic athletes. Data were collected by active Korean elite athletes(N=106; MA=25.74; 45 males &; 61 females) who participated 2012 London Olympic Games through three different questionnaires(i.e., Athletic Identity Measurement Scale[AIMS], Transition Coping Questionnaire[TCQ] and the Korean Athlete Lifestyle Assessment Needs in Career and Education[KALANCE] Scale. A Pearson correlation and multiple regressions were used to analyze the data to identify relationships between the degrees of their athletic identity, resources related to transitions, and expected difficulties of career transition adjustment. The results indicated that participants degree of athletic identity had a positive relationship with the quality of athletes’career transitions. Regarding to athletes’resources, the findings revealed that athletes’situation of their transitions, social support, and coping strategies had positive influence on the quality of expected their career transition adjustment. However, self factor did not show any association with the quality of their career transition adjustment. The current study was the first study examining variables related to expect active Korean Olympic athletes’transition difficulties and provided future research directions, such as a need of examining the ways to develop athletes’readiness for retirement while actively competing.