if 'ar' or 'ko' in item:
This is incorrect. What you meant to say was: if 'ar' in item or 'ko' in item: or something equivalent to that."if 'ar' or 'ko' in item" means "if ('ar') is True or ('ko' in item) is True". Since 'ar' is True anyway, you'll get a match every time.
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