To celebrate next year's 20th anniversary of the establishment of China-South Korea diplomatic ties, the special program Connecting for Twenty Years and the documentary Wangjing will be shown on CCTV-9, the documentary channel.

Connecting for Twenty Years features interviews with special guests, including China's first ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Zhang Tingyan, master go player Nie Weiping and his long-time South Korean rival Cho Hunhyun. It's produced by the China's State television broadcaster, CCTV, and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).

Zooming in on Wangjing, an area of the Chinese capital where many South Koreans have settled and opened businesses that serve their own community, the eponymous documentary named after the neighborhood seeks to present typical South Korean lives and their feelings about living in Beijing.

Connecting for Twenty Years will premiere on Jan 1, 2012. Wangjing will premiere on Jan 2.