Welcome back to Emlex's weekly podcast, where we cover the big news in regulatory affairs.

I'm James Panicki, back in your feed after a week away.

And thank you very much to our teams covering both

the ABA's Spring Antitrust Meeting and the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C.

It was great to hear their voices coming directly to you in the podcast from the margins of those

conferences. And don't forget to check out those podcasts if you haven't heard them already.

They're available at our archives at emlexmarketing site.com.

As for today, well, we'll be handing things over to our correspondence in South Korea

in just over 10 minutes from now.

Jenny Lee and Wiyong Lee have prepared a special report for M-Mex

based on an extended interview with the head of the Personal Information Protection Commission

Yun Jong-in. It's a vital moment in the country's revamp of its privacy rules, and our

correspondence have been all over that story in the course of the last few months

and we'll tease out some of the issues there. First up, though, the story that everyone is talking

about at the moment, Elon Musk's 44 billion US dollar bid for the social media platform Twitter.

M-X has responded to the news of the move by the Tesla founder with a fine

piece of analysis, a joint effort from our reporters in both Europe and the US. And one of the authors

is Jacob Krupa, who covers tech issues from our offices in London. And Jacob joins me now for a chat.

So let's start with what's unusual about

this deal. I mean, firstly, there was Musk's gradual approach as a minority shareholder, all of the

speculation that that led to, then his refusal to join the board, and we got talking about that.

And then this final takeover attempt, which appears to be successful,

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