Actors Lee Yu-jin and Cha Kyung-eun reveal baby's sex ahead of Saturday wedding

Actors Lee Yu-jin and Cha Kyung-eun have revealed the sex of their baby ahead of their upcoming wedding.

The couple's wedding preparations were featured Tuesday on SBS's "Dongsang Imong Season 2 — You Are My Destiny," a reality show following couples, ahead of their Nov. 14 ceremony.

On the broadcast, Lee announced Cha's pregnancy, saying the baby — whose prenatal nickname is Yeorumi — had arrived "like a scene from a movie" while they were preparing for the wedding. "We'll get to meet the baby next year," Lee said, adding that he had moved them in together early so he could look after her.

Cha said Lee tells the baby three reasons why he loves her every night before going to sleep, praising her fiancé's approach to prenatal bonding.

Lee spoke warmly of Cha, saying the atmosphere on set would change whenever she arrived for work — "she was like sunshine" — and said he had decided to marry her after about five months of dating.

The couple revealed the baby's sex at a meeting of both families: they are expecting a son.

Lee's father, actor Lee Hyo-jeong, heaped praise on his future daughter-in-law, saying his son was "being filial for the first time" and that she was "a partner who exceeds expectations by 200 percent."

The family ties formed by the marriage have also drawn attention. Cha's older sister is actor Kim Seung-yun, who married actor Jang Dong-yun on Oct. 10, making Lee Yu-jin and Jang Dong-yun brothers-in-law.

Lee said he had long admired and rooted for Jang as an actor, and expressed delight at the connection. It also emerged that the two were born in the same year.