Section 05 · About

JW Baelly · 정원 배

A Los Angeles real estate agent who also paints. Or a painter who also sells houses. The order changes depending on the week.

JW has been working in Los Angeles real estate for nearly 20 years — primarily with Korean-American families across Koreatown, Hancock Park, and the wider Wilshire corridor. Before real estate, she trained as a painter.

She's not just a sales agent. With a Certified Property Manager designation (PMC 3), HUD Housing Counselor certification, and Probate Process credentials, JW can handle the full ownership lifecycle — not just buy and sell, but lease management, asset operations, and compliance under one roof.

Her career began in 2008 when she earned her California real estate license at Redpoint. She then served as Administration Director for the Korean American Real Estate Brokers Association (2019–2022), and moved into asset management at Coldwell Banker Commercial Wilshire Properties, where she oversaw a diverse portfolio of commercial and residential properties and led Koreatown's Regency 321 new-construction project from listing through completion. She's now at WIN Realty & Properties, with her Nevada Broker license exam completed in November 2025.

Most agents stage homes with rented furniture and stock prints. JW does too, when it makes sense — but she also has the option of pulling one of her own large canvases off a studio wall and hanging it where it'll be photographed. Buyers walk in, pause, and remember the room. That's the whole job.

She works in both English and Korean fluently. First-generation Korean clients appreciate that the cultural translation isn't an afterthought — that the difference between a 전세 mindset and an American mortgage isn't something they have to explain twice. Second- and third-generation Korean-Americans appreciate that she handles the offer paperwork the same way the top agents in Beverly Hills do.