Go Geukhua

Go Geukhua (高菊花; Go Geukhua) is the President of the Republic of Taikieng.

Widely respected for being a nonpartisan and longtime member of the State Council, Go was elected President by the National Assembly in 2020. Before being elected in 1995 and starting her storied career in politics, she was an university professor in Taikieng's prestigious Academy of the Republic, of which she was also a graduate, teaching traditional Taikiengese literature. In her tenure as a member of the State Council, she pushed for more spending on education and reforms for the country's education system that she deemed necessary. Trusted by most mainstream politicians, she was appointed as Minister of Education in 2018 despite being an apolitical independent.

Early Life and Education
Go was born in X,

Song Muoigoi Regime
In 1959, when Go was only nine, her father was arrested by the Song Muoigoi police state for his involvement in left-wing political activism. He spent a year in prison, tortured and beaten by the authorities. Go says this event was what motivated her to become a professor herself, as she admired her father for "standing up for what was right" according to her. Her family suffered greatly for the rest of the regime and beyond, with her father unable to find work until 1963. Some of her other relatives, also involved in political activity, were detained or executed by the dictatorship. Paradoxically, this was also what motivated her to stay away from partisan politics, as the punished members of her family were on both sides of the political spectrum and were highly involved in party politics before 1956.