This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. , S 6 , or S 7 of 450 bp in length whereas the Japanese control cultivars had four other comparatively longer S-RNase. Out of nine pear cultivars only 'Chuwhangbae' and 'Whangkeumbae' had identical SSR genotypes and S-genotype with previously reported parents. For another cultivar, 'Sujeonbae', the parents were the mutants of reported parent, 'Niitaka'. For four other cultivars, SSR and S-genotypes of offspring matched with only one reported parent 'Niitaka' but those of another parent did not match. For the two other pear cultivars 'Soowhangbae' and 'Sooyoung' none of reported parents were confirmed by SSR genotyping and S-genotype analysis. Historically, the parent 'Niitaka' was predominant in the Korean pear breeding programs because of its high yield potential and quality. The methods have been used in this study could be used to identify pear cultivars with diverse S-genotypes to eliminate any existing obscure parent-offspring relations.