The Republic of Korea Sudanese Reconstruction Assistance Force or Hanbit Unit are UN peacekeeper forces deployed by the Republic of Korea to the Republic of South Sudan. On July 9, 2011, the Hanbit Unit was dispatched from South Korea to South Sudan, which had separated from Sudan in 2011. Peacekeeping operations began in South Sudan after religious, civil, and racial violence broke out in the new nation, issues which eventually compounded into the South Sudanese Civil War. The Hanbit Unit is the seventh unit dispatched from the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, preceded by the Sangnoksu Unit (deployed to Somalia, Angolan and East Timor), the Danbi Unit (deployed to Haiti), Dongmyeong Unit (deployed to Lebanon), and a medical support unit sent to the Western Sahara. As of November 2017, the Hanbit Unit remains deployed in South Sudan.