Colleagues came back from Seoul and Tokyo grinning. The ones who did Florida came back quiet. The exchange rate explains only half of that. The first week back in the office is really just a travel podcast with a spreadsheet open in the background. I stood by the coffee machine in Kista on Monday and listened to one colleague describe eating his way through Seoul for a week on what he called pocket money, while another summarised a Florida holiday almost entirely in terms of receipts. Same three weeks off, same Swedish salary , two completely different moods. So I went home and pulled the actual numbers, because I wanted to know how much of that gap was money and how much was memory. The numbers. Start with the simplest possible question. You take a single 100kr note out of the machine at Arlanda. What is it worth when you land? 100kr becomes: US dollars .......... $10.55 Euros ............... 9.13 EUR Japanese yen ........ 1,665 JPY Korean won .......... 14,870 KRW Mid-market rates f...