Although neither are self defence focused, both can give you a great workout and develop your martial skills. One of my general recommendations when considering training in a new style/dojo is to actually take a class. This gives you a chance to critically evaluate your options. Each instructor imparts their own flavour to a class and this may make a seemingly low impact art into something completely different.
I personally have a leaning to boxing (I do some coaching) but I have done some TKD training that was very aggressive and combat focused which incorporated a lot of contact.
As I said both systems have their pros and cons. You just need to find out which dojo/instructor is the best fit for you at this time.
Hope this helps
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