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Seems likely: apparently D.M. Seok was also a lepidopterist and esperantist (see, e.g., the references in https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2169.1.1); that's too much of a coincidence. And "Joo-myung" → "D.M." could easily be some kind of romanization artefact, especially since he apparently published mainly in Japanese. There is a reference to a single 1973 publication by DM Seok, but that could easily be posthumous. Still, it would be preferable to have some authoritative source explicitly say that they are they are indeed the same person, before we do likewise. Hqb (talk) 16:44, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(reposting from Wikispecies) This worldcat page I just found after a dive into google gives the full name of the author of A Synonymic List of Butterflies of Korea as "Do Myung Suk" which sounds pretty consistent with our findings so far, since "Suk" is another spelling of "Seok" at least. Monster Iestyn (talk) 21:29, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(another repost from Wikispecies) : An article added to Wikispecies last month includes a PDF (here), in which a set of Japanese or Chinese characters can be seen after "D. M. Seok". To the best of my handwriting on Google Translate I think they're "石宙明"? Interestingly, googling those characters does actually give results relating to Seok Joo-myung, including a post by Google about him from 2014 (here). This might be the connection we're looking for. Monster Iestyn (talk) 19:52, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I have since found out that 石宙明 is just the Hanja form of 석주명 (Seok Joo-myung's name in Korean), so I'm pretty convinced now that D. M. Seok and Seok Joo-myung are the same person. Monster Iestyn (talk) 19:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
