DMS 2026 — Featured Session | Baek Kyunghee

Five Questions Global Marketers Ask — Answered by AI Profiling

Session Overview

Bringing Trends, Competitors, and Creators Together at Once

Global beauty marketers wrestle with the same questions every day:

Will this trend work in that market? How will local consumers respond? What are competitors doing? What type of content will resonate? Who should we collaborate with?

In the past, decisions were made by consulting local offices, commissioning research, or relying on intuition. It took time, cost a lot, and still lacked precision.

WHOTAG’s Profiling AI analyzes social data from 109 countries—text, images, and videos—simultaneously.

It answers marketers’ pressing questions with data: How is the same trend received differently by country? What visual strategies are competitors using? Which hashtags and content formats are going viral? Which creators best fit our brand?

This session focuses on the five most common questions global beauty marketers face and presents real-world cases showing how AI transforms marketing decision-making— from market analysis to influencer execution.

Speaker

Baek Kyunghee
Kyunghee Baek
Director of AI Business Development
VAIV Company
A data strategy expert with over 20 years of experience in social big data, trend intelligence, and cultural analytics. She currently leads the beauty influencer and beauty intelligence service WHOTAG (Hot Tag) at VAIV Company.

Based on the belief that “numbers alone cannot explain influencers—context completes the meaning,” she developed GPT-based profiling technology that analyzes creators’ tone of voice, visual style, and cultural nuance beyond quantitative metrics.

Today, she focuses on AI intelligence solutions that analyze global beauty trends in real time and accelerate marketing decision-making.