{"id":445291,"date":"2026-05-16T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445291\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:12:11","slug":"taiwanese-actor-couldnt-buy-bts-tickets-for-daughter-cos-he-couldnt-answer-trivia-questions-as-part-of-ticket-buying-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/445291\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese Actor Couldn’t Buy BTS Tickets For Daughter ‘Cos He Couldn’t Answer Trivia Questions As Part Of Ticket-Buying Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given how rampant\u00a0scalping<\/a> has become, it makes sense for concert organisers to tighten measures to weed out fake fans and bots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But sometimes, that makes it really hard for parents trying to get tickets for their kids.<\/p>\n

Just look at how exasperated Taiwanese actor\u00a0Wang Shih-hsien\u00a0was after trying to get BTS concert tickets for his daughter.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, the 58-year-old actor, who has two daughters \u2014 one 22 years old and another in her teens \u2014 was asked if he’d be taking them to BTS’s<\/a> Taipei concert on November 19-22 this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes… We\u2019ll watch it on TV,\u201d he deadpanned, before elaborating on the ticket buying process, which included questions he had to answer in order to buy the tickets.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The quiz] even asked about their songs, when the concert is taking place, what is going to happen,\u201d Shih-hsien said, referring to the trivia quizzes organisers set before ticket buyers are allowed to make the purchase.<\/p>\n

“There were a bunch of rules. It really is so difficult to get tickets. After clicking in, there were so many questions asked,” he continued to complain.<\/p>\n

“How would I know when they debuted, what songs they sang, who wrote the songs or which album did this particular song belong to? I’m just a ‘ticket-buying service’ [for my daughter]. I’m not familiar with them at all,” laughed Shih-hsien.<\/p>\n

Such quizzes have become more common, and are used to combat bots, prioritise genuine fans, and sometimes even serve as promotional campaigns. Prominent examples include K-pop fan quizzes for priority ticketing \u2014 such as those for\u00a0NCT Dream\u00a0and\u00a0Seventeen\u00a0\u2014 as well as app-based trivia contests offering free tickets.<\/p>\n

However, these measures vary across different countries and concert organisers, and may not apply to all of BTS’ world tour stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked if he\u2019s since gotten to know the K-pop group better after having gone through the process, the actor admitted he still only knows the basics about them.<\/p>\n

“I only know a little, I’m still at entry level,” he mused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given how rampant\u00a0scalping has become, it makes sense for concert organisers to tighten measures to weed out fake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1845,146,85,46,409,208264],"class_list":["post-445291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-wang-shih-hsien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}