Strange behavior of vim-kolor with Markdown

Hello, all

I have a problem with the beautiful vim-kolor plugin, and am
posting my question here because the plugin author seems to
have set up the Github project not to accept any issues:

https://github.com/zeis/vim-kolor

Maybe you can help.

While editing a markdown file (*.md) in GVim with the
following vimrc:

set encoding=utf8
let g:kolor_italic=0
let g:kolor_bold=0
colorscheme kolor
syntax enable
filetype plugin on
set guifont=PxPlus IBM VGA8:h24

italic font style is used for *emphasis* even though it is
disabled in the vimrc. When, however, I explicitely invoke
`:colo kolor', the italic style is turned off. Futhermore,
an explicit invocation of `:colo kolor' turns off italic
even if it is not disabled in vimrc. But the bold style
setting (g:kolor_bold) is respected. This bug (if bug it
is) occurs with .md files, but not with vimrc, so I don't
even know whether it is in the vim-kolor plugin or the
markdown syntax definition...

Is anybody else using this plugin and observing the same
issue?

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