That last post was great. A good look at the history and development of modern Taekwondo, thanks.
But to answer the original question, the kicks are a bit different. You can see it in the hip rotation, foot pivot and foot movement. The various forms of Karate out there tend to "push" a bit more than TKD or TSD - I think this is due to the sport style of sparring that has become so popular in TKD, because you can still see a bit of the push style kicks in TSD.
Now within TKD you can see different power levels in kicks. ITF Taekwon-Do is more traditional and you can see that in the popular side kicks, though they do practice round kicks they are not as deadly as you can find in the WTF. The WTF style of Tae Kwon Do may not have the "tradition" on their side, but they have developed a type of sparring that just screams "quickness" (as you can see in the Olympics) and the choice for quick kicks would be snapping kicks like the round or ax kicks...though you will see a good competitor though in a front kick or a front push kick to set up another technique.
Karate and the Korean arts have similar backgrounds but over the last 50 or so years a bunch has changed.
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