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Jos Lolita's name

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About a month ago, the Jos Lolita tag was created, and a wiki for the tag was made last night. Given Wa Lolita and Qi Lolita, having a corresponding tag for Korean Lolita makes sense! Unfortunately, the name seems to be lacking.

There seems to have been some online discussion on whether a Korean Lolita style even exists, and while there is, it seems to actually be referred to as han lolita (한로리타, 韓ロリータ), ala hanbok and Hanguk... which makes it ambiguous with han lolita (汉洛丽塔, 漢ロリータ), a subset of qi lolita, or it doesn't have a name at all beyond just "Korean Lolita".

Now, this wouldn't be that much of an issue if the name designated here seems to be fine, but it actually has an issue - Wa and Qi Lolita are derived from 和 (Wa, as in Japan's oldest name) and 華 (Qi, as in qi-pao and Bannerman/旗民) respectively, so if you were to look at the name's source, Joseon, you'd hope to see a similar breakdown, but you don't; 조선/朝鮮 is Jo-seon. So if we were to follow Wa and Qi Lolita in step on using one character disambiguators, then it'd have to be Jo Lolita, not Jos Lolita. So regardless of anything, a name change is required, especially before a Korean Maid tag ala Wa Maid and Qi Maid is made.

Updated

BUR #39338 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create implication jo_lolita -> korean_clothes
create implication jo_lolita -> lolita_fashion

While we are at it and before we decide on a name, Wa lolita implies japanese clothes and Qi lolita implies chinese clothes. Also both of them imply lolita fashion.

It makes sense to also add these kind of implications for the korean version.

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