Taejo Yangdo

Taejo Yangdo is an Enshawdi engineer and politician affiliated to the technocratic party. As of 1830, Mr Yangdo occupies the office of prime director of the nation of Enshaw, making him head of state.

## Physical description

### Eye color

Brown

He is known for doubling down on technocratic and capitalist policy and expanding the economy, lifting the country up from a brief recession. However, he has also received some backlash, as critics point out Yango's internal policies necessitated a foreign policy that had negative effects on the prosperity of smaller nations.

## Early Life

### Childhood

Taejo Yangdo was born in the capital city of Enshaw, Lanzarote, to a wealthy family. His father, Lloyd-Korbin Yangdo, was a mechanical engineer who worked as chief of an automotive manufacturing plant and car designer, and his mother, Liwanag Yangdo (maiden name: Liwanag Ramos) was a model.

Taejo's father was a great influence on the boy, and insisted that he learn to play the violin and take additional lessons in academic fields, including private tutors for three different foreign languages, becoming fluent in all of them. Growing up, it is said that Taejo had few friends and constantly seeked his father's approval.

### Education

Taejo would finish school early, having skipped a grade. Following in his father's footsteps, he entered mechanical engineering, recieving outstanding qualifications. His father would not live to see him graduate as Lloyd-Korbin Yangdo would pass away due to lung cancer while Taejo was in his final year. This is attributed to Korbin's heavy smoking habits.

This is said to have sent Taejo into a period of depression, during which he became rather vocal about the self-destructive tendencies of the Ensawdi peoples.

## Adulthood

Shortly after overcoming his depression and graduating, Yangdo registered to the techocratic party. While his mother was entitled to a portion, Yangdo was the inheritor of the vast majority of his father's vast fortune, and he invested it in stock on various companies both domestically and abroad. These investments would pay off over time, growing his fortune even more.

During this period he became more social. Taejo believed in the value of labour and experience, thus he worked for a few years in the automotive industry and later in consulting. During this period he performed independent research on human behavioral sciences by reading various authors.

## Political carreer

It came as a surprise to everyone when Yango postulated himself as a candidate for the technos as mayor of Maraguson, where he was living and working at the time. Being rather unknown to the political scene at the time, Taejo was perceived as an outsider. A pivotal moment of his career was a guest appearance on the country's most popular talk show, where he made an overwhelmingly positive impression by demonstrating his fluency and vast intellect.

While his mannerisms had a certain awkwardness to them, this added to his outsider perception to paint him as an honest, hard-working engineer. A stark contrast to the typical sleazy politician image.

Yangdo would take full advantage of his new public image to catapult his political career forwards, and won the elections for Maraguson by a landslide. He implemented careful changes to improve the efficiency of the city -notably the public transport system- that were successful, although perhaps overstated. More importantly, Yangdo, thanks to information he had access to through his foreign investments, anticipated a coming recession, and was able to take measures to shield Maraguson from the effects.

By the time he ended his term, he was the second most popular member of the technocratic party, and became the first when the head of the party was involved in a sexual scandal in 1828

When the elections of 1829 approached, the technocratic party had little choice put to present Yangdo as their candidate if they had any hopes of winning. He pitched his campaign on dealing with the inflation and unemployment and ended up winning with a comfortable margin.